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What use case are they trying to solve for? It's confusing to me. Especially this:

>On Nest Cam, Dropcam, and Nest Hello, the status light will blink when the camera’s live video is streamed from the Nest app. The setting to turn this off will be removed.

So now someone trying to break into my house will know that no one is looking at them on the camera so it's all clear?

Edit for formatting, sorry, I don't post ever.




> What use case are they trying to solve for?

Watching a house-guest/renter getting naked


No, because that's worked around with tape on the led. I think the use case that they are trying to solve for is to avoid camera owners unintentionally recording activities of other people who are unaware that they are being recorded, and then ending up with footage that they probably wished they hadn't captured because it makes them feel pervy. Maybe parent setting it up for security but ending up with videos of their teenage kid making out...




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