Google wants you to buy Nest CCTV, turn your home into a Brillo pad Google is expanding its smart-home tech offerings with a networked security camera that could be the first hardware to run its cutdown Android OS, Brillo. The search giant's Nest arm – famous for its smart thermostat – will unveil a new version of the wireless camera Dropcam called the Nest Cam next week. The new camera will …
Well unless you've got a strongbox in your basement or a second site then without it all your recordings are vulnerable to being taken or destroyed.
At least if it is web enabled you can get an alert and then get a realtime view of the situation and make a decision to call the police without having to pay an expensive subscription to a monitoring company who then don't follow procedures and allow a multimillion pound raid to go unnoticed.
This is nowt more than the ultimate spying machine deployed by the ultimate information grabber.
so you slink off home for a 'quick one' with the missus and the Spycam sees you having a bit of nooky.
The Google AI Behmoth decides that you should be at work and sends footage of your 'fun' to your boss.
Later on,
'I'm sorry Dave, I'm going to have to let you go. Having sex on company time is explicitly banned and listed in your contract'.
Just painting one possible scenario. Others are available I'm sure.
Never gonna buy anthing from Google.
PR department? How quaint. Google probably has a news scraper which is set up for Google stories and an comment voter which upvotes or downvotes appropriately according to the comment's positivity or negativity towards Google. The server instance was being rebooted but as you can see it's working again.
Seems a bunch of us notice this behavior of downvotes. Oh well... who gives a crap about downvotes? It just means someone disagrees and that's a form of discourse.
Disclaimer: I'm not anti-Google. I'm anti-IoS. So far, security on the devices suck, they seem to be a solution in search of a problem, and generally, there's usually a better way to have something done other than IoS pumping crap to the wherever. Webcams, like private pictures, are a prime target for some folks. Knowledge that you're not home, is a prime target for others. Having "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" isn't the issue. It's about keeping one's self and loved ones secure from those who would do evil.
I don't understand why people concoct all these bizarre scenarios - in the same way that Google will never actually sell your data to advertisers - because that's what makes them money, Google are also not going to be passing video footage of you on to anyone else because again - as soon as there is the slightest suspicion that something like that is going on - people will dump Google like a hot stone.
Pretty much the same argument exists for Android - if people legitimately started reporting they were being served ads for something they were talking about to someone else over the phone - or even just with the phone (in standby) in the same room - an investigation would happen and people would start ditching Google - even before the results of the investigation was complete.
I'm surely not the only one who has common sense when it comes to this?
You claim everyone would ditch Google in a heartbeat, but ask yourself, "For WHAT?" Who else is out there that is as feature-rich as Android and Google that would allow people to pick up where they left off? Apart from Apple, who's just as guilty, I doubt you'll find a serious answer. And since they've become too ubiquitous, I doubt they'll be convinced to abandon cell phones altogether for fear of that emergency call that can't wait and so on.
They may never even sell it on. Good for them.
Now, how common are data breaches at large corporations? How confident are you that the feed from the camera to wherever the recordings are being stored is secure? Do you really want more of this?
, "Apple has its HomeKit scheme to produce an IoT standard that will make everything interoperate"
Let me correct that for you
Apple has its HomeKit scheme to produce an IoT standard that will make everything you have bought for a hefty price from Apple interoperate, everything else will fail or be glitchy.
The Germans got there first, but as not everyone speaks German, here is an English version of what this camera idea makes me think of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOF3UeLvtA.
Not in a million years. If I install anything that I can access/control remotely, it is not going to go through a 3rd party unless I can have them independently vetted and the organisation resides in a jurisdiction where it is bound by properly enforced privacy and laws that represent my rights instead of excuses for state agencies to do whatever the hell they like.
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