A Denver TV news program discovered a hidden camera installed at a post office in Golden, Colorado, which was "positioned to capture and record the license plates and facial features of customers." An hour after the camera was discovered it "was ripped from the ground and disappeared."
An alert customer first noticed the data collection device, hidden inside a utilities box, around Thanksgiving 2014. It stayed in place, taking photos through the busy Christmas holidays and into mid-January.
Managers inside the post office tell FOX31 Denver they were unaware customers were being photographed outside and that the surveillance was not part of the building's security monitoring.
A spokesperson for Postal Inspection Service declined to address the specific reason for the domestic surveillance, but admitted the agency had a "number of cameras at their disposal."
