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Jay
Stanley
Jay Stanley is Senior Policy Analyst with the ACLU’s 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.

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05/22/2012
License Plate Scanners

Data Mining License Plate Records

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 11:09am
On Friday I posted about an ongoing effort by the DEA to put automatic license plate reading (ALPR) devices on public interstates, where they will sweep up records of ... Read More
05/21/2012
Government Surveillance

The Government, Privacy, and Companies (The Ones We Pay and the Ones We Don’t)

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 5:18pm
Privacy researcher Chris Soghoian gave a very nice talk at TEDx recently on “Why Google Won’t Protect You From Big Brother.” He provides a cogent ... Read More
05/18/2012
License Plate Scanners

DEA Recording Americans’ Movements on Highways, Creating Central Repository of Plate Data

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 3:58pm
The DEA wants to capture the license plates of all vehicles traveling along Interstate 15 in Utah, and store that data for two years at their facility in Northern ... Read More
05/11/2012
Particle Sniffers

Sniffing Out Privacy Issues That May Be In Our future

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 4:55pm
MIT’s Technology Review has an article today on research that is underway to make extremely sensitive and rapid molecular sensors—aka “artificial ... Read More
05/10/2012
Checkpoint Society

A Creeping Private-Sector “Checkpoint Society”—and a Small Step to Protect Your Privacy

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 4:03pm
I was at a Target store recently and threw a bottle of wine in my cart to bring as a gift to a party. Later, when I got to the register, the cashier asked to see my ... Read More
05/09/2012
Government Surveillance

A Glimpse at the World of Digital Forensics

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 5:33pm
A gathering of cyber-crime specialists in Massachusetts last week provided a glimpse into the tactics used by prosecutors and police to access digital data. Kade ... Read More
05/08/2012
Data Mining

Big Data: Revolution or Overhyped Fad?

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 8:43am
In a prior post I alluded to the fact that the buzzword “Big Data” is just a new term for “data mining.” The potential for big data analytics ... Read More
05/07/2012
Online Privacy

Will We Let the FBI Micromanage Our Software?

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 4:42pm
CNET’s Declan McCullaugh reported Friday that the CALEA II proposal is alive and well within the Justice Department. This is a proposal to radically expand ... Read More
05/07/2012
Consumer Online Privacy

Email, Companies and Social Norms

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 10:51am
I wanted to make note of an interesting anomaly in a new survey that looks at Americans’ attitudes toward the privacy issues implicated by the use of mobile ... Read More
05/04/2012
Government Surveillance

Saturday Panel in NYC: Life in the Panopticon

By Jay Stanley, Senior Policy Analyst, Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at 4:53pm
A quick note to our New York City-area readers: the ACLU's Catherine Crump, author Ken MacLeod, Cato's Julian Sanchez and others will be appearing at Cooper Union ... Read More
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