Overview
- El‑Sayed’s campaign launched a coordinated push Tuesday that includes a digital video, billboards and the MikeIsWatching.com website to spotlight Rogers’s surveillance record.
- The ads quote Rogers’s 2013 House Intelligence Committee line “You can’t have your privacy violated if you don’t know your privacy is violated” and cite his votes on the Patriot Act and a 2011 surveillance bill.
- Rogers’s campaign has pushed back, saying he opposes unchecked use of Flock cameras, noting he left Congress before that technology existed, and pointing to later comments acknowledging abuses in surveillance programs.
- The tactic is a late-stage escalation in a race rated a toss-up with early voting already under way and national figures expected to boost turnout, raising stakes for control of the Senate.
- The push taps recent real-world concerns about Flock camera misuse and AI-driven misidentification and could sway privacy-conscious voters or reshape post-election debate over police and corporate surveillance tools.