Nest is acquiring Dropcam

Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by dbarlett on Friday June 20, 2014 @08:29PM (#7923633)

Dropcam 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/

[2] http://gigaom.com/2013/07/31/dropcam-gets-30m-for-expansion-...

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Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by lotu on Friday June 20, 2014 @09:00PM (#7923722)

Naturally 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.

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Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by gress on Friday June 20, 2014 @09:19PM (#7923779)

Or providing video to law enforcement on demand.

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Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by hueving on Saturday June 21, 2014 @04:25AM (#7924483)

Well 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.

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Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by pgeorgi on Saturday June 21, 2014 @02:59AM (#7924396)

I guess it doesn't make much of a difference if Google or Amazon is doing it.

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Re:Nest is acquiring Dropcam by gress on Tuesday June 24, 2014 @07:47PM (#7941426)

Amazon isn't in a position to build a law enforcement portal to this service. Google now is.

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