These are exigent circumstances, which allow police to enter your home without a warrant. Extending that access to include video cameras seems reasonable.
This is a "In Case of Emergency Break Glass" type of situation.
If a police officer comes to your house without a warrant are they allowed to break in? If not they shouldn’t be given access to my camera feeds without my permission.
The move by google here just re-affirmed that I made the right choice to not buy their products.
Absolutely. If they hear gunshots or screams of “help! Help!” they will break the door down. I’m sure there are other triggers, too.
You can get a lawyer, go to court, and demand an accounting.
You don't have that control here. Your footage can just walk off, no clue. No accounting, no reporting, no post-hoc punishment for mis-use.
> You don't have that control here. Your footage can just walk off, no clue. No accounting, no reporting, no post-hoc punishment for mis-use.
The supreme court recently ruled that a woman beaten by police didn't have standing to sue. Good luck with breaking qualified immunity in a court of law in the coming years.
The only difference being that when you pull the alarm for lols there are consequences -- for you. Members of law enforcement on the other hand do that on the regular and face zero consequences.
That said, Google doing this might ease the pressure to enable this across the board through legislation. So maybe a positive in the end; I wouldn't really expect any privacy with Nest anyways.
The problem is there isn’t any broken glass here. No judge is stamping this, and I see no duty to warn the customer about what device and data was accessed, and there doesn’t seem to be a way to opt out ahead of time. This removes a lot of checks in the name of expediency.
The "process" to which you are "due" when it comes to these things is if the police try to use this information to prosecute you, they have to explain it in court, whereas if they obtain it through a search warrant, they have to explain themselves in advance. It's all "due process".
https://support.ring.com/hc/en-us/article_attachments/360053...
looks like someone just mashed the keyboard after a long day of work.
That being said, that power is obviously easily misused without checks and limits.
You can see it. No theorizing. Click the big red "Submit Emergency Request" button.