Surveillance
The Government’s Lust to Spy
In 2019, agents of the federal and state governments persuaded judges to issue 99% of all requested intercepts. An intercept is any type of government surveillance โ telephone, text message, email, even in-person. These are intercepts that theoretically are based on...
Even at 100 Percent Accuracy, Facial Recognition Would Still Be Dangerous to Liberty
Over the last couple of years, there has been a strong grassroots push to prohibit or limit facial recognition technology. The fact that facial recognition is extremely inaccurate, especially in identifying African Americans and other ethnicities with dark...
Trump’s Plan to Expand the National Police-State
A draft report from the Presidential Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice reveals the Trump administration’s plan to further expand the national police state, with an emphasis on supporting and expanding qualified immunity and facial...
Status Report: Nullifying the National Surveillance State
In 2014, the Tenth Amendment Center dove headfirst in the fight against unconstitutional federal surveillance when it spearheaded efforts to turn off the water at the NSA facility in Bluffdale, Utah, and cut off other critical state and local services to other NSA...