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
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Sep 18, 2015
Obama’s “Precision Medicine” Initiative and Privacy
![Photo of hawk knocking drone out of sky](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/drone_vs_hawk_by_christopher_schmidt-400x266.jpg)
Sep 9, 2015
The Precarious State of the Private-Sector Drone Industry
![Photo of LAPD officer making an arrest](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/lapd_arrest_by_chris_yarzab_credit-400x266.jpg)
Sep 3, 2015
ACLU to Justice Department: Don't Give Money to LAPD For Body Cameras
![Closeup of gun on police officer's hip](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/police_gun_by_jeremy_sternberg_crecdit-400x266.jpg)
Sep 2, 2015
Interesting New Hampshire Case Testing Body Camera Transparency Rules
![Drone hovering in sky](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/drone_by_ninfaj_credit-400x266.jpg)
Aug 27, 2015
Five Reasons Armed Domestic Drones Are a Terrible Idea
![Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State at podium holding a cell phone](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/secretary_clinton_delivers_a_statement_on_the_flooding_in_pakistan_-_crop-400x266.jpg)
Aug 21, 2015
What Hillary Clinton Has in Common With NSA Whistleblowers
![Big orange garbage truck](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/garbage_truck_by_tim_hamilton_credit-400x266.jpg)
Jul 24, 2015
Some Towns Are Videotaping Residents’ Garbage Streams