Bio
Chad Marlow is a senior policy counsel at the ACLU, where he principally focuses on privacy, surveillance, and technology issues. His field-leading policy and advocacy work has frequently been the subject of national and international media coverage and critical acclaim. He is the author of over 20 ACLU model bills, is the primary author of the ACLU’s groundbreaking “Digital Dystopia” report on student surveillance, has published dozens of influential ACLU blogs and op-eds, and directs both the ACLU’s nationwide #TakeCTRL and Community Control Over Police Surveillance (CCOPS) campaigns.
Marlow holds a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law and a B.A. in Government from Connecticut College.
Featured work
Jan 29, 2024
Celebrating An Important Victory In The Ongoing Fight Against Reverse Warrants
![The ACLU is pushing back against reverse warrants - and winning. Learn more here.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2024/01/reverse-warrants-blog-400x400.jpg)
Oct 3, 2023
Keeping Our Kids Safe from the EdTech Surveillance Industry
![A classroom cctv camera keeping watch over students.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/10/edtech-classroom-school-surveillance-b-400x400.jpg)
Feb 13, 2023
How to Pump the Brakes on Your Police Department’s Use of Flock’s Mass Surveillance License Plate Readers
![Cars driving on a highway.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2023/02/Plates_Blog-400x400.jpg)
May 25, 2021
The People, Not the Police, Should Decide If and How Surveillance Technologies Are Used In Their Communities
![Gray police surveillance camera](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/05/web21-CCOPS-20th-law-blog-Wordpress-1110x740-1-400x400.jpg)
Jan 26, 2021
President Biden: The Time To Restore Net Neutrality Is Now
![Woman helps to dismantle a large alarm clock display that reads "Net Neutrality Wake Up Call" from the stage after a protest in front of the FCC in Washington, DC.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2021/01/Net-Neutrality-Header-Image-400x400.jpg)
Aug 11, 2020
The U.S. Postal Service Was Never a Business. Stop Treating it Like One.
![Letter carriers load mail trucks for deliveries at a U.S. Postal Service facility.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/08/WEB20-USPS-Carriers-Loading-Trucks-BlogImage-WordPress-1110x740-1-400x400.jpg)
Mar 27, 2020
Those “Free” Remote Learning Apps Have a High Cost: Your Student’s Privacy
![A young child works at home remotely on an online class assignment.](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2020/03/WEB20-Remote-Learning-BlogImage-WordPress-1110x740-1-400x400.jpg)