Bio
Jay Stanley 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 edits the ACLU blog, focused on emerging technology, and has authored and co-authored hundreds of influential ACLU reports, white papers, and blog posts on privacy and technology topics.
Featured work
Feb 13, 2026
Ring Superbowl Ad Shows Americans How Powerful Surveillance Systems Have Become, Freaks Them Out
Feb 3, 2026
Kansas Town Uses License Plate Readers to Go After Man Who Wrote Op-Ed
Jan 29, 2026
Trump Administration Claims Sweeping New Power to Take Down Any Drone it Doesn’t Like
Jan 20, 2026
Retailers Secretively Using Face Recognition to Spot “Persons of Interest” — Including For the Government
Jan 16, 2026
Flock CEO Goes Ballistic on Critics as More Americans Question Mass Driver Surveillance
Jan 5, 2026
How to Give the Government New Power to “Un-Person” Someone, in Three Easy Steps
Nov 24, 2025
New Report Highlights How CBP and Border Patrol are Becoming a Repressive Internal Intelligence Agency
Nov 13, 2025
Face Recognition and the ‘Trump Terror’: A Marriage Made in Hell