Kent Walker
Some of the key events about Kent Walker
- 1986Graduated from Harvard Law School
- 1989Joined the U.S. Department of Justice as an Assistant U.S. Attorney
- 1993Became a partner at the law firm Cooley Godward
- 1997Joined Netscape as Deputy General Counsel
- 1999Became Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Liberate Technologies
- 2002Joined eBay as Deputy General Counsel
- 2004Became Google's first general counsel outside of its founders
- 2010Promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer at Google
- 2015Appointed to the President's Intelligence Advisory Board by President Obama
- 2018Elevated to Senior Vice President of Global Affairs and Chief Legal Officer at Google
- 2018Faced criticism for Google's plans to launch a censored search engine in China, codenamed "Project Dragonfly"
- 2019Testified before Congress regarding Google's data collection practices and privacy concerns
- 2020Oversaw Google's response to antitrust investigations, which led to multiple lawsuits against the company
- 2021Defended Google's decision to remove certain political content and apps from its platforms, sparking free speech debates
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