Interesting interpretation (Score 1)

Having RTFA, they didn't pledge not to. They said they aren't offering general purpose facial recognition at the moment. This is because they already offer facial recognition in their Nest Aware doorbell subscription. I think they know there are likely to be moral issues with facial recognition technologies, including false positives and bad actors depending on the applications they make it available for. Unfortunately, it just becomes a matter of finding a company with few morals.