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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Jul 3, 2013
CBP Using Its Authorization for Border Use Of Drones as Wedge For Nationwide Use
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Jul 3, 2013
Police Harassment of Photographers Remains a Problem
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Jun 27, 2013
Activists Leverage Stronger EU Privacy Laws to Seek More Information on PRISM
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Jun 17, 2013
Some Thoughts on DMV Image Databases and the Police
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Jun 11, 2013
Simple Dataset About American Colonists Shows Power of Metadata
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Jun 7, 2013
Why Government Access to Metadata is More Than a 'Modest Encroachment' on Privacy
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May 30, 2013
Should Facebook Censor Misogynistic Material?