Bio
Jay Stanley (@JayCStanley) is senior policy analyst with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, where he researches, writes and speaks about technology-related privacy and civil liberties issues and their future. He is the editor of the ACLU's Free Future blog and has authored and co-authored a variety of influential ACLU reports on privacy and technology topics. Before joining the ACLU, he was an analyst at the technology research firm Forrester, served as American politics editor of Facts on File’s World News Digest, and as national newswire editor at Medialink. He is a graduate of Williams College and holds an M.A. in American History from the University of Virginia.
Featured work
![Aerial photo of Baltimore with red trace showing movement path](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/baltimore_aerial3-400x266.jpg)
Oct 25, 2016
Baltimore Aerial Surveillance Program Retained Data Despite 45-Day Privacy Policy Limit
![Las Vegas at night](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/las_vegas_by_wbeem_credit-400x266.jpg)
Sep 27, 2016
City Demonstrates How a '48-Hour Brain Dump' Can Build Trust in Police
![Reporter in front of police car at police activity scene](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/charlotte_police_by_james_willamor_credit-400x266.jpg)
Sep 22, 2016
Charlotte Shooting Shows Why Video Transparency Is Vital
![Police stopping drivers at Connecticut DUI checkpoint](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/dui_checkpoint_by_versageek-400x266.jpg)
Sep 19, 2016
Police Accidentally Record Themselves Conspiring to Fabricate Criminal Charges Against Protester
![A pipette putting a drop in a vial in a lab setting](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/dna_lab_pipette_by_u_of_michigan_credit-400x266.jpg)
Sep 16, 2016
The Police Want Your DNA to Prove You're Innocent. Do You Give it to Them?
![DNA readout in lab](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/dna_lab_by_u_of_michigan_credit-400x266.jpg)
Sep 13, 2016
Local Police Using and Abusing DNA and Other Biometric Technologies
![Aerial shot of baltimore](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/baltimore_from_air_by_aa440_credit-400x266.jpg)
Aug 24, 2016
Baltimore Police Secretly Running Aerial Mass-Surveillance Eye in the Sky