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
May 20, 2013
"Drones" vs "UAVs" -- What's Behind A Name?
May 13, 2013
The Asymmetry Between Past and Future, and Why it Means Mass Surveillance Won’t Work
May 9, 2013
How Social Networks Short-Circuit Our Inborn Privacy Intuitions
May 6, 2013
The Privacy-Invading Potential of Eye Tracking Technology
Apr 25, 2013
The House Hearing on Location Tracking Law (or the Lack Thereof)
Apr 25, 2013
ACLU testimony in hearing today on location tracking