How is my Privacy Being Protected When Using Intruder Intervention?

From the moment we developed intruder intervention, ensuring our customers’ privacy remains secure has been a top priority. We’ve taken several steps in this regard.

Monitoring agents do not have access to live camera streams outside of alarm events. Temporary access is only granted when an alarm signal reaches the monitoring center. Canceling the alarm remotely by disarming the system, responding with “C” to an alarm text, or canceling the alarm via app within the false alarm grace period, or by providing a Safe Word over the phone or through the camera) will end the agent's live video access.

Any time an agent streams live during an alarm event, the Status LED of that camera will blink Amber instead of Blue, giving persons in the home the ability to simply glance at a camera and know if an agent is viewing that camera live.

At the beginning of an alarm, when the agent opens the Video Verification app for that location and gains access to your camera(s), you’ll receive an event on your timeline indicating and documenting this access. When an agent streams live from the camera(s), the entire duration of their stream is recorded. You’ll receive a timeline event with each recording, so you’ll be able to see what our agents saw, heard, and if they activated 2-way audio, what they said. If they activate 2-way audio, you’ll also receive a push notification and timeline event indicating this. During this period, the agent will have access to a short video clip(s) from any recordings made by any camera on your system caused by this alarm event. Finally, when an agent’s access to your camera(s) ends (either because you canceled the alarm, or the 20-minute window expired), you’ll receive an event on your timeline. 

To get these benefits and more, sign up for residential or business Pro Plus, Pro, or Core monitoring and opt into Video Verification and intruder intervention via the SimpliSafe® Mobile App!