Bio
Bennett Stein (@bbbennettt) 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
Jul 20, 2015
U.S. Department of Transportation Funding License Plate Readers, Documents Reveal
May 15, 2015
Internal Documents Show FBI Was 'Wrestling' With License Plate Scanner Privacy Issues
Apr 6, 2015
DHS Wants Contract for Access to Database of Innocent Drivers’ Locations
Jan 27, 2015
DEA Planned to Monitor Gun Show Attendees With License Plate Readers, New Emails Reveal
Jan 26, 2015
FOIA Documents Reveal Massive DEA Program to Record Americans' Whereabouts With License Plate Readers
Nov 19, 2014
ACLU Seeks Information About Airborne Cell Phone Snooping
May 21, 2014
A Partial Victory For Judicial Transparency
Apr 18, 2014
The Government is Silencing Twitter and Yahoo, and It Won't Tell Us Why
Feb 20, 2014
In Court Today: Challenging DOJ Secrecy on Use of Warrantless Cell Phone Location Tracking
Jan 3, 2014
Here’s Who Thinks Snowden Should Be Allowed Home – What About You?