Ring CEO blasted for saying Nancy Guthrie case would be solved by now if there were ‘more cameras on the house’
The search for “Today” show anchor Savannah Guthrie’s mother, Nancy Guthrie, continues more than a month after she disappeared from her million-dollar Tucson, Arizona, home.
Nancy, 84, went missing overnight on February 1 after being dropped off from a family dinner.
Savannah, 54, is offering a $1,000,000 reward for any information leading to her mother’s safe return.
Jamie Siminoff, CEO and founder of Ring, the smart doorbell company, faced backlash online for suggesting that more home surveillance cameras might have helped solve the case.
“I do believe if they had more of it, if there were more cameras on the house, I think we might, you know, have solved” the case, Siminoff told Fortune on Tuesday.
“The video that they have,” he added, “appears to be the best evidence they have of what happened.”
Siminoff said the case highlights “how important it is to have video at your house.”
Many social media users criticized his comments, arguing that promoting surveillance is self-serving for a home monitoring company.
One Reddit user wrote, “If only we had universal mass surveillance.” Another added, “The CEO of a monitoring company is hoping more people BUY a monitoring product. Why are we surprised by this?”
Another sarcastic commenter noted, “Basically admitting that a universal privately owned panopticon puts you even more under the thumb of government. Why get a warrant when you could just buy the information from Ring?”
The FBI released photos and video from Guthrie’s Nest camera on February 10, showing a masked man tampering with the security device around the time she disappeared.
New surveillance footage from a neighbor’s camera last week shows several cars driving near her Tucson home the night authorities believe she was kidnapped.
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