DENVER — The FBI’s recovery of surveillance footage from Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell camera has sparked concerns among technology experts who question whether companies like Google/Nest and Amazon/Ring are storing customer video data even when they claim it has been deleted.
The FBI released images and video Tuesday showing a masked individual tampering with the camera at the Arizona home of the 84-year-old mother of “Today” host Savannah Guthrie. FBI Director Kash Patel said the footage was recovered from “residual data located in backend systems” through work with private sector partners, despite earlier reports that the footage was inaccessible.
The Pima County Sheriff’s Department had previously stated that investigators could not access the doorbell camera footage because Nancy Guthrie did not have an active subscription to the Nest camera service, and the camera had been disconnected…