Submission + - Connected without subscription is still connected (nbcnews.com)
Nkwe writes: NBC reports that the FBI has pulled video from Nancy Guthrie’s Google Nest camera out of ‘backend systems’, even though there wasn't an active cloud recording subscription. While this was apparently done at the request of law enforcement, and ultimately may lead to finding the kidnapped, it is a stark warning about privacy with connected systems. Two quotes from the story are particularly interesting:
There’s some legal, legalese you’ve got to work with, but everybody’s working with us on this,” he said. “I can’t even tell you how many different corporate America, Google, Apple, Meta, all these companies have said, ‘Whatever you need, Sheriff, they’re there,’ and we’re utilizing that leverage to get things done as quickly as we can.
“The data is being transmitted to the cloud, but even if it had not gotten there, there are many stops in between where data will reside, and the FBI prides itself on being able to tear into these data streams and pull out bits and pieces of data and piece together an image like we see here today,”
