That is entirely true, but don't miss the forest through the trees: > The incident highlights the fact that delivery robots that are being deployed to sidewalk

That is entirely true, but don't miss the forest through the trees: > The incident highlights the fact that delivery robots that are being deployed to sidewalks all around the country are essentially always filming, and that their footage can and has been used as evidence in criminal trials. Nest and the like are already queried by law enforcement, and those are fixed in place. They're raising awareness that there is now a mobile CCTV system in these delivery droids. In this case, the footage was offered to substantiate a criminal accusation, but there is appetite for automating this. Case in point: I've worked for two employers that implemented ALPR at parking lot security gates. One of them did feed license plate data to local police; the idea was that we didn't want anyone with an active warrant (or known trespassers) entering the premises. The cops aren't monitoring shit on their own-- all the surveillance "they" do is outsourced to our employers.