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
![Blurred photo of Supreme Court building](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/supreme_court_by_mark_fischer_-_filtered_500x280d-400x266.jpg)
Jun 26, 2014
How the Supreme Court Could Have Ruled in Riley
![Photo of blue pipes](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/pipes_by_identity_chris_is_500x280c-400x266.jpg)
Jun 24, 2014
We Want Internet Providers to Respond to Internet Demand, Not Shape It
![Privacy Please laptop](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/privacy_please_laptop_500x280-400x266.jpg)
May 23, 2014
How to Protect the Most Privacy with the Least Effort: Change Search Engines
![Crop of image by Tom Blackwell via Flickr](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/aerial_houses_by_tom_blackwell_2_500x280-400x266.jpg)
Apr 25, 2014
Drones Manufacturer Allies With ACLU to Call For Pro-Industry Privacy Regulation
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Apr 16, 2014
Photographers' Rights At Issue As Arizona Community Rises Up Against "Occupying Army" of Border Patrol Agents
![Crop of image by David D/C via Flickr](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/peephole_by_david_dslashc_500x280-400x266.jpg)
Apr 4, 2014
Have We Become a “Surveillance State”? A Five-Part Test
![Crop of image by x ray delta one via Flickr](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/old_tv_by_x-ray_delta_one_500x280_0-400x266.jpg)
Mar 17, 2014
Ad Industry Feeds White House Its Fallacious “Internet Depends on Spying” Logic