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Yup, the want to avoid the headline: "Google buys network of in-home cameras."
by gress 12y ago
Yup, the want to avoid the headline: "Google buys network of in-home cameras."
- privong 12y agoThey did make a point of explicitly saying none of the data is shared with Google. But, yeah, probably best for fit PR to differentiate.
- dbarlett 12y agoDropcam runs on AWS [1], "ingest[ing] more video per minute than YouTube" [2] into S3. Presumably the cost savings from switching to Google infrastructure will be compelling enough to change that. They'll probably torture the semantics and say "the data is there but Google can't access it". [1] http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/dropcam/ http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/dropcam/ [2] http://gigaom.com/2013/07/31/dropcam-gets-30m-for-expansion-plans-and-computer-vision-rd/ http://gigaom.com/2013/07/31/dropcam-gets-30m-for-expansion-...
- lotu 12y agoNaturally what what they mean is not, this data will never exist on a computer/network owned by Google. What they mean is we aren't going use video from your security camera for general Google projects, like street view, collecting large amounts of speech databases for voice recognition, figuring out what products you and enjoy using and tailoring advertising to fit that, or tracking epidemics in real time by monitoring how many people in your house are sick.
- gress 12y agoOr providing video to law enforcement on demand.
- pgeorgi 12y agoI guess it doesn't make much of a difference if Google or Amazon is doing it.
- gress 12y agoAmazon isn't in a position to build a law enforcement portal to this service. Google now is.
- hueving 12y agoWell of course they will do that. Any company in the US is compelled to follow the law and give up any information they can possibly access.
- npizzolato 12y agoFor now, maybe. But Google owns Nest, so Google owns the data, and one day they can easily decide to start looking at it. So either you don't care that Google can look at that data (which is fine), or you do care, and these kind of assurances should mean little to nothing.
- gress 12y agoGoogle has demonstrated zero hesitation about changing privacy policies when it suits them.
- esbonsa 12y agoHopefully it will make some noise if it changes at the next revision of the privacy policy...