The dragnet era of home security cameras
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Most people get security cameras for, well, security. They hope the devices will deter criminals, or at least catch bad guys in the act. But fundamental privacy questions, like what happens to the videos and who owns the footage, should be part of the calculus when installing the devices.
Just consider these two recent events:
Nancy Guthrie, the missing mother of “Today” co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, had a Google Nest camera, but not a subscription to view older recordings. Yet law enforcement still managed to access and share a clip.
Some Nest owners were surprised to learn that, yep, even if you aren’t paying for cloud storage, your recordings could still be floating around Google servers.
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