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
![LA subway station](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web18-lasubwaystation-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Aug 29, 2018
ACLU Seeks More Information About Los Angeles Subway Body Scanners
![Closup of a body camera on the front of a police officer's uniform](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/bodycam_by_penn_state_-_filtered-400x266.jpg)
Jun 14, 2018
Abuses Show Police Departments Need to Take Cameras, Not Just Video, Into Evidence in Police Shootings
![Virginia license plate that says "no spying"](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/va_plate_by_tony_alter_credit2-400x266.jpg)
Apr 26, 2018
Virginia Supreme Court Sees Through Police Claim That License Plate Data Isn’t ‘Personal’
![A satellite hovering over the earth](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/satellite_by_nasa_goddard_space_flight_center_credit-400x266.jpg)
Apr 23, 2018
A Company Announces Its Intent to Create World’s Newest Privacy Nightmare
![A screen with mug shot images on it](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/mugshots_by_angus_mcdiarmid_credit-400x266.jpg)
Apr 16, 2018
A Looming Implication of Face Recognition: Private Photo Blacklists
![Facebook login screen](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web18-fb-gdpr-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Apr 12, 2018
The Landmark European Law That Could Change Facebook and Improve Privacy in America
![Community Broadband Illustration](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web18-broadbandcommunity-jayblog-1160x768-v01-400x266.jpg)
Mar 30, 2018
Public Broadband Can Help Protect the Open Internet and Close the Digital Divide
![Shopper in store aisle with her face being scanned](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/shopper_by_colorblindpicaso_credit-400x266.jpg)
Mar 26, 2018
Are Stores You Shop at Secretly Using Face Recognition on You?
![Sign: NO PD Police Do Not Cross](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/nopd_by_graysonchalmers_credit-400x266.jpg)
Mar 15, 2018
New Orleans Program Offers Lessons In Pitfalls Of Predictive Policing