US EditionCybersecurity Experts Explain How Surveillance Footage of Nancy Guthrie's Home Was Recovered
FBI recovered footage from a disabled Nest Doorbell without a paid subscription, raising privacy concerns about cloud data retention and law enforcement access, experts say.
- On Tuesday, FBI Director Kash Patel posted photos and videos recovered from residual data in Google Nest backend systems showing a masked person at Nancy Guthrie's Arizona home.
- Earlier this month, Guthrie was reported missing on February 1 after being dropped off, and her Nest Doorbell was disabled without a paid subscription.
- Retired FBI agent Jason Pack described the recovery as a 'remarkable engineering feat in the cyber world,' explaining the urgency to recover footage before it was overwritten, enabled by on-device flash and event history.
- The development raises broader questions about data retention as Google said it is assisting law enforcement and the FBI's access to inactive Nest footage sparks privacy concerns.
- Privacy concerns are prompting some consumers to switch to Eufy, favoring local-storage over cloud-based Nest users, while some Nest devices still save brief recoverable event histories.
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