Rep. Nancy Mace addressed a House Oversight Committee hearing, sharing her traumatic experience of allegedly being filmed without consent by her ex-fiance, Patrick Bryant. Displaying images taken from a security camera, she highlighted her naked silhouette, urging lawmakers to strengthen laws against video voyeurism. Mace underscored her position as both a lawmaker and a survivor, asserting the importance of personal freedom and the right to privacy, while stressing that such violations undermine liberty, a fundamental American value. Bryant has denied these allegations.
Freedom is not a theory. It is the right to breathe. It is the right to dress and undress, to sleep without someone's camera filming your naked body.
I speak not just as a lawmaker, but as a survivor.
The Founders wrote liberty in parchment, but hidden cameras erase it in pixels.
I didn't know that I had been filmed. I didn't give my consent. I didn't give my permission.
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