- Clayton Simms discussed privacy concerns with home surveillance systems, like Ring cameras, on Sunday.
- Simms highlights benefits such as theft deterrence and package notifications from doorbell cameras.
- Privacy advocates worry about surveillance potential as the FBI has been using Nest systems in investigations like the Nancy Guthrie case.
SALT LAKE CITY — From the FBI using “back-end systems” to produce video and photos of a suspect in the Nancy Guthrie case, to Ring utilizing its network of doorbell cameras to find lost dogs, home surveillance has been in the spotlight over the past week.
As some have raised privacy concerns, one local criminal defense attorney and legal analyst weighed in on the latest headlines and what to take from them.
“We are participating in our own surveillance, through convenience, through security,” Clayton Simms said during an interview with KSL. “There’s good purposes, but there could also be bad purposes, and you lose your privacy, you lose your, sort of, freedom, and you feel like you’re always being monitored.”…