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Jay Stanley

Senior Policy Analyst

桃子视频Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project

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Jay Stanley is senior policy analyst with the 桃子视频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 桃子视频 blog, focused on emerging technology, and has authored and co-authored hundreds of influential 桃子视频reports, white papers, and blog posts on privacy and technology topics.


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Feb 25, 2026

License Plate Readings Shouldn鈥檛 Be Public Data

License Plate Readings Shouldn鈥檛 Be Public Data

Feb 13, 2026

Ring Superbowl Ad Shows Americans How Powerful Surveillance Systems Have Become, Freaks Them Out

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

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鈥檛 Like

Trump Administration Claims Sweeping New Power to Take Down Any Drone it Doesn鈥檛 Like

Jan 20, 2026

Retailers Secretively Using Face Recognition to Spot 鈥淧ersons of Interest鈥 鈥 Including For the Government

Retailers Secretively Using Face Recognition to Spot 鈥淧ersons of Interest鈥 鈥 Including For the Government

Jan 16, 2026

Flock CEO Goes Ballistic on Critics as More Americans Question Mass Driver Surveillance

Flock CEO Goes Ballistic on Critics as More Americans Question Mass Driver Surveillance

Jan 5, 2026

How to Give the Government New Power to 鈥淯n-Person鈥 Someone, in Three Easy Steps

How to Give the Government New Power to 鈥淯n-Person鈥 Someone, in Three Easy Steps

Dec 2, 2025

The AI Trapdoor Lying in Wait for Workers

The AI Trapdoor Lying in Wait for Workers

Dec 1, 2025

Another Police Use of AI

Another Police Use of AI

Nov 24, 2025

New Report Highlights How CBP and Border Patrol are Becoming a Repressive Internal Intelligence Agency

New Report Highlights How CBP and Border Patrol are Becoming a Repressive Internal Intelligence Agency