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
![Police tape with lights in background](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/police_tape_by_tony_webster_credit-400x266.jpg)
Jul 20, 2017
Lessons From the Minnesota Shooting Body Camera Activation Failure
![Reality Winner](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-realitywinner-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Jul 11, 2017
Reality Winner Is Latest to Face Prosecution Under Awful World War I Espionage Act
![TSA agent searching bag](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/tsa_search_by_joel_franusic_-_crop-400x266.jpg)
Jun 23, 2017
How the TSA Considered Looking at What Books People Have in Their Carry-on Bags
![Data Cables](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-datacables-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Jun 6, 2017
The ACLU Is Joining With Allies to Fight Mega-Corporations in the Battle to Save Net Neutrality
![Judge with computerized face](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/algorithmic_judge_-_photo_art_by_jay_stanley_using_images_by_jurvetson_trevor_yannayon_credit-400x266.jpg)
Jun 2, 2017
Pitfalls of Artificial Intelligence Decisionmaking Highlighted In Idaho ACLU Case
![John Lewis being beaten by state troupers during Selma march](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/john_lewis_beaten_-_from_photos.state_.gov_-400x266.jpg)
May 31, 2017
Suppression of Photographers During Civil Rights Movement an Important Reminder for Today
![MLK March DC](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-mlkdcmarch-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
May 26, 2017
Civil Rights Movement Is a Reminder That Free Speech Is There to Protect the Weak
![Vermont state capitol](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/vermont_state_capitol_by_j._stephen_conn_crop-400x266.jpg)
May 24, 2017
States Legislatures Rebelling Against Congress’s Attack on ISP Privacy
![Drawing of three men looking at their phones](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/texting_by_susan_murtaugh_credit-400x266.jpg)
May 16, 2017
Mobile-Phone Cloning Tools Need to Be Subject to Oversight — and the Constitution
![A sad-looking pig in a cage](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/pig_in_cage_-_by_mercy_for_animals_canada_credit-400x266.jpg)
May 12, 2017
Federal Appeals Court Hears Crucial Case on First Amendment and Photography