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
![Cars driving on a highway.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/02/Plates_Blog-400x266.jpg)
Feb 13, 2023
How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department’s Use of Flock’s Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers
![The Evolv Express weapons detection system.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/11/Evolv_Blog-400x266.jpg)
Nov 2, 2022
Are Gun Detectors the Answer to Mass Shootings?
![A close-up of a video surveillance unit set up in front of the U.S. Capitol building.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/07/SURVEILLANCE-Full-Bleed-v15-400x266.jpg)
Jul 15, 2022
Six Questions to Ask Before Accepting a Surveillance Technology
![Two bitcoins on top of a pile of cash.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/03/Crypto_Blog-400x266.jpg)
Mar 28, 2022
We Need Digital Cash That is Actually Like Cash
![The silhouette of a pilot wearing a facemask walking past a window with a Delta plane outside.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/02/Delta_Blog-400x266.jpg)
Feb 9, 2022
Airlines Want the Government to Create a New Passenger No-Fly List
![A photo of a security camera.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/02/Surv_Blog-400x266.jpg)
Feb 8, 2022
A Scary Demonstration of What Unchecked Face Recognition Could Look Like
![The U.S. Internal Revenue Service headquarters in Washington.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2022/02/IRS_Blog-400x266.jpg)
Feb 2, 2022
Three Key Problems with the Government's Use of a Flawed Facial Recognition Service
![Traffic](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/11/Blog-Sober-400x266.jpg)
Nov 22, 2021
Congressional Drunk Driver Detection Mandate Raises Privacy Questions