By Shaun Boyd | CBS Colorado
From Flock cameras to facial recognition, mass surveillance is advancing; at the same time, privacy protections are eroding.
The government can access, or buy access to, vast troves of data on Americans’ emails, texts, bank records, even cloud data and justify it in the name of national security.
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, a Republican who represents Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, knows that firsthand. The Coloradan had just taken the oath of office in 2021 when Jan. 6 happened, and she became the subject of an FBI investigation dubbed Operation Rampart 12.
“And this was all because I brought my family to the Capitol and had a tour,” she said.
Democrats accused her and at least three other Republicans of leading reconnaissance tours in advance of the attack on the Capitol.
Based on whistleblower documents released recently by Senate Judiciary Chair Chuck Grassley at the end of April, prosecutors at the Department of Justice were skeptical of the allegations, with one prosecutor saying video of Boebert’s tour showed “a MAGA hat group about a minute behind her. But it’s a family—with kids… does not look suspicious.”
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