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
![Old postcard of cars in parking lot](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/cars_parked_postcard_500x280_0-400x266.jpg)
Jan 27, 2015
DEA Planned to Monitor Gun Show Attendees With License Plate Readers, New Emails Reveal
![YOU ARE BEING TRACKED](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/blog-alpr-imagepool-500x280-v07-400x266.jpg)
Jan 26, 2015
FOIA Documents Reveal Massive DEA Program to Record Americans' Whereabouts With License Plate Readers
![Photo of toll booth at night](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/tollbooth_by_the_bs_500x280-400x266.jpg)
Jan 16, 2015
Christie Use of Tollbooth Data and Why Location Privacy Must Be Protected
![Photo of police officer speaking to civilian](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/cop_by_paul_weiskel_-_filtered2_credit_500x280._0-400x266.jpg)
Jan 13, 2015
Should Officers Be Permitted to View Body Camera Footage Before Writing Their Reports?
![Telephone by Vincent AF via Flickr](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/telephone_by_vincent_af_500x280-400x266.jpg)
Nov 13, 2014
Americans' Confidence in Privacy of Electronic Communications is Very Low
![Photo of New Orleans skyline](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/new_orleans_by_laura_downey_500x280-400x266.jpg)
Nov 3, 2014
Louisiana Blocks Ebola Scientists From Meeting in New Orleans in Latest Counterproductive Over-Reaction
![Jetliner landing](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/jetliner_by_joe_kunzler_credit_500x280-400x266.jpg)
Oct 29, 2014
Ebola: Travel Bans, Quarantines, and Political Courage