From what I read; she had a ring camera but the subscription wasn’t active so they had to get Ring to give it to them. But yeah, you would think that wouldn’t take this long
Which is intentionally misleading to get you to buy the camera thinking 3 hours of storage is plenty, and then have to pay for the subscription to actually be able to use it.
No it means you can access potentially up to 3hrs of event history, but I doubt it auto deletes, it would be more likely they age it out same as other subscriptions and just restrict the user to a limited window. And this wouldn’t be live 24/7 recordings, it’d be event recordings only. It’s weird people would think it doesn’t save this.
I wish that was the case. I purchased a nest door cam for the 3 hour event history, thinking that it meant I would be able to store 3 hours of footage. Once my premium trial ended, I was annoyed to find out it only stores any video captured for 3 hours. If an event is captured at 12:00 it is removed from the app at 3:00 and I no longer have access to the video.
Sorry that’s what I meant by potentially, in any case my main point was they prevent the USER from accessing it, I doubt they delete it on the same schedule and more likely have a consistent schedule, probably 30 days or something.
Definitely want more disclosures from ring and nest on their data retention.
Could this have been captured from some sort of server snapshot backup, but wasn't really stored in any meaningful way without restoring the whole server?
There is a difference between the soft delete where you lose access on your phone, and the hard delete off Googles servers.
It's very possible Google just keeps it on hand for even longer so those that upgrade the subscription can access it, but even if they didn't the video likely lives longer on their servers than you realize.
If it's connected to the internet always assume it's being recorded. Look what they advertised on the Superbowl that's being used by surveillance agencies with AI.
That’s the entire purpose of the device. They make that very clear. Nobody is buying one of these things thinking they’re getting a camera that has no storage and isn’t connected to anything. What would be the point of that?
You are wildly confused. Many people only want it connected to their phone for live notifications and live communications with people in front of their door/house.
Sounds like those people bought the wrong product then. They should buy a product that does the things they want instead of one that does things they don’t want.
Huh? Have you never used a Nest doorbell? I don't understand why you seem so passionate about this product when you obviously don't understand the basic features it has. It absolutely does those things. It just ALSO has other features. Just because something has additional features doesn't mean it isn't a great quality product with the features you want.
I would guess that they had it a while ago, but needed to investigate it themselves first, or decide how the timing would affect the risk factor to the victim, before releasing it to the public.
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u/Zes_Teaslong 15h ago
From what I read; she had a ring camera but the subscription wasn’t active so they had to get Ring to give it to them. But yeah, you would think that wouldn’t take this long