Politico September 5, 2025
With help from Anthony Adragna
Jay Stanley is the resident futurist at the American Civil Liberties Union, and studies the legal conundrums that accompany the technologies of tomorrow. He’s conducted extensive research into the threats that AI, chemical detectors and armed robots pose to civil liberties, and testified before the House Committee on Homeland Security in 2023 concerning the privacy risks of requiring digital IDs at airports. The following has been edited for length and clarity.
What’s one underrated big idea?
Cryptographic privacy-enhancing technologies. There are really some amazing things that can be done with this, but we’re not seeing adoption. There were a couple guys who came up with a cell phone service that uses the cellular network, which...
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