Bio
Bennett Stein () is a legal assistant with the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. At the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û, 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 ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û. Prior to joining SPT, he served on the executive board of the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û’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
Jul 23, 2013
The Chilling Effects of License-Plate Location Tracking
Jul 1, 2013
Fighting a Striking Case of Warrantless Cell Phone Tracking
May 17, 2013
What the Government Says When It Says Nothing
Apr 8, 2013
Voices on Human Gene Patents: 7 Days Until the Supreme Court
Jul 25, 2012
Big Data: NSA, Facebook—and My University?