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
![A law enforcement drone in flight.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/08/WEB20-Law-Enforcement-Drone-WordPress-1110x740-1-400x266.jpg)
Aug 4, 2020
ACLU Seeks Information on Government’s Aerial Surveillance of Protesters
![Protestors react to a low flying helicopter during a march in Brooklyn, New York.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/06/Police-Surveillance-Protests-Header-Image-400x266.jpg)
Jun 24, 2020
Protests, Aerial Surveillance, and Police Defunding
![An infrared camera is shown scanning a person for elevated body temperature.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/05/WEB20-Thermal-Scanner-COVID-19-WordPress-1110x740-1-400x266.jpg)
May 19, 2020
Technology and Liberties in the Fight Against Coronavirus
![Aerial view of a freeway at night.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/04/WEB20-Aerial-Surveillance-WordPress-1110x740-1-400x266.jpg)
Apr 9, 2020
ACLU Lawsuit Over Baltimore Spy Planes Sets Up Historic Surveillance Battle
![One hand holding a cell phone while the other hovers with index finger extended over a smart phone showing a map of North and South America.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/03/WEB20-Smart-Phone-Map-WordPress-1110x740-1-400x266.jpg)
Mar 30, 2020
Is Location Tracking Technology the Magic Pill to Stemming the Coronavirus?
![A gloved hand injects fluid into a test tube.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/03/web20-dnalab-BlogImage-Wordpress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Mar 2, 2020
Can We Trust the Government to Respond to the Coronavirus in a Fair and Effective Manner?
![A passenger using a facial recognition kiosk in the background with a U.S. Customs and Border Protection officer watching in the foreground.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/02/WEB20-Airport-Facial-Recognition-Kiosk-WordPress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Feb 6, 2020
The Government's Nightmare Vision for Face Recognition at Airports and Beyond
![A gloved hand holding a vial of novel coronavirus 2019-nCoV in a laboratory.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/01/WEB20-2019-nCoV-Coronavirus-Vial-WordPress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Jan 28, 2020
What You Need to Know About the Coronavirus Outbreak: A Civil Liberties Perspective
![Servers in a data center](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/12/WEB19-Network-Server-Shallow-Depth-BlogImage-WordPress-1110x740-400x266.jpg)
Dec 18, 2019
A Little-Known Privacy Battle Is Being Waged Over Encrypting the Nuts and Bolts of the Internet