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
![Bela Legosi looking greedily at bundle of internet cables](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/bela_lugosi_with_ethernet-400x266.jpg)
Aug 1, 2016
Why Broadband Carriers are a Menace to Privacy
![Statue of Lady Justice with green box around her face](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/lady_justice_by_darlus_norvilas_credit-400x266.jpg)
Jun 15, 2016
FBI and Industry Failing to Provide Needed Protections For Face Recognition
![Neighborhood street with drones filling sky](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/neighborhood_by_selbe_lynn_with_drones_in_sky_credit-400x266.jpg)
Jun 15, 2016
Industry-Dominated Group Writes Drone Privacy “Best Practices” That Don’t Deserve the Name
![Woman using a mobile device and laptop](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web16-blog-privstat-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Jun 7, 2016
A Few Easy Steps Everyone Should Take to Protect Their Digital Privacy
![Lincoln memorial statue with face recognition analysis on his face](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/lincoln_memorial_by_thomas_hawk_with_facerec-400x266.jpg)
May 31, 2016
FBI Wants to Exempt Biometric Mega-Database From Privacy and Accuracy Rules
![A reader's hand on a parchment letter](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/reading_letter_by_christa_uymatiao_credit-400x266.jpg)
May 31, 2016
Why Today’s Privacy-Invading Online Ecosystem May Not Last
![Computer brain and image of Facebook Trending page](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/tech_brain_by_a_health_blog_credit-400x266.jpg)
May 17, 2016
Facebook, Objectivity, and 'Intelligence Anxiety'
![Airport security line](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/airport_crowd_by_oddharmonic_0-400x266.jpg)
May 5, 2016
Is the TSA Pressuring Americans Into Submitting to Background Checks?
![Bundle of internet cables](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/cables_by_pascal_charest_credit-400x266.jpg)
Mar 31, 2016
The Fight Begins As FCC Takes Huge New Step to Protect Privacy