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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/wivaca2 on 2026-02-15 11:28:32+00:00.
In reading a recent CNN story (https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/tech/google-video-nancy-guthrie) on the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, mother of NBC's Savannah Guthrie, I the following comment got my attention even though I don't own a Nest camera:
...Guthrie “had no subscription” to Google’s video recording service, which keeps videos from Nest cameras accessible in Google’s cloud.
But Nest still saves around three hours of “event-based” video history for free before being deleted. That data lives in Google’s cloud and servers.
So do you knowingly, and mandatorily get 3 hours of free video backup and registration of the camera is unavoidable, or is this something they are doing when owners might think there is no video data leaving the premises?
In this case, it sounds like Google went into their data storage and recovered deleted video for the investigation.