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Bennett Stein

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Bio

Bennett Stein () is a legal assistant with the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. At the ACLU, he has worked extensively on documenting the use of automatic license plate readers and other new police surveillance technologies. He is also the unit chair of the UAW Local 2110 shop at the ACLU. Prior to joining SPT, he served on the executive board of the ACLU’s University of Michigan Undergraduate Chapter for four years. He co-founded the University of Michigan student organization Students Against Surveillance which continues to advocate for an ordinance in Ann Arbor regulating the use of government surveillance cameras. While in school, he worked at Durham’s Tracklements and Smokery in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Bennett is a graduate of the University of Michigan’s Ford School of Public Policy.


Featured work

Sep 18, 2013

Court Rules That Facebook ‘Likes’ Are Free Speech

Court Rules That Facebook ‘Likes’ Are Free Speech

Jul 23, 2013

The Chilling Effects of License-Plate Location Tracking

The Chilling Effects of License-Plate Location Tracking

Jul 1, 2013

Fighting a Striking Case of Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking

Fighting a Striking Case of Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking

May 20, 2013

Barbara Brenner, 1951-2013

Barbara Brenner, 1951-2013

May 17, 2013

What the Government Says When It Says Nothing

What the Government Says When It Says Nothing

Apr 8, 2013

Voices on Human Gene Patents: 7 Days Until the Supreme Court

Voices on Human Gene Patents: 7 Days Until the Supreme Court

Jul 25, 2012

Big Data: NSA, Facebook—and My University?

Big Data: NSA, Facebook—and My University?