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The situation with the Nancy Guthrie disappearance and Nest camera footage is related, and interesting. It seems that she had a Nest doorbell camera, but didn't
by apparent 8mo ago
The situation with the Nancy Guthrie disappearance and Nest camera footage is related, and interesting. It seems that she had a Nest doorbell camera, but didn't pay for the subscription plan ($100/yr?). As a result, the camera records short snippets but doesn't save them to the cloud in a user-accessible way.
After a week, Google finally hunted down/coughed up the footage. I imagine there were some people within Google who realized that if they provided the footage immediately, then it could discourage people from paying for the subscription.
Of course, they must also realize that by not providing the footage sooner, they may have allowed the perp to get away, or the victim to be killed.
- ibejoeb 8mo agoThat is one of the weirder aspects of this run of the simulation. Ring: just want you to know that we record everything whether you pay us or not and we know where you dog is. Savannah: Where's Ma? Ring:
- apparent 8mo agoFWIW, Nancy's camera was a Nest, not Ring.
- ibejoeb 8mo agoMy mistake. Despite that, I don't have much confidence that nest isn't also uploading everything at all times.
- apparent 8mo agoI do. The battery life on our units varies depending on the amount of foot traffic that they see. One is at our front door, where package deliveries and entry/egress trigger 5-10 times daily, and the other is in our backyard, where it is triggered a 5-10 times weekly. The backyard camera lasts much longer per charge. This tends to indicate that they are only recording/uploading in response to specific triggers. They also have LEDs that supposedly light up whenever they are recording.