The CEO and founder of Ring doorbells is getting ripped online for positing that the Nancy Guthrie case would be “solved” if only there were more home surveillance cameras on the 84-year-old grandmother’s home.
“I do believe if they had more of it, if there was more cameras on the house, I think we might, you know, have solved” the case, Jamie Siminoff told Fortune on Tuesday.
“The video that they have,” he went on, “appears to be the best evidence they have of what happened.”
Siminoff also told the magazine that Guthrie’s case is “just another example of, like, how important it is to have video at your house.”
Keyboard warriors quickly took to Reddit to blast the entrepreneur behind the $1 billion brand.
“If only we had universal mass surveillance,” one person wrote.
“The CEO of a monitoring company is hoping more people BUY a monitoring product. Why are we surprised by this?” someone else said.
“Basically admitting that a universal privately owned panopticon makes you even more under the thumb of government.
Why get a warrant when you could just buy the information from Ring?” wrote another sarcastic commenter.
The FBI released photos and video from Guthrie’s Nest camera on Feb. 10, showing a masked man tampering with the security device around the time she vanished on Feb. 1.
Then, new surveillance video obtained last week from one of Guthrie’s neighbors’ cameras captured several cars driving near her Tucson home the night authorities believe she was kidnapped.
