Google, like Amazon, may let police see your video without a warrant
by Mitchell Clark from The Verge - All Posts on (#61V7Q)
It's probably good to read the privacy policy when you're putting a camera in your home. | Photo by Jennifer Pattison Tuohy Arlo, Apple, Wyze, and Anker, owner of Eufy, all confirmed to CNET that they won't give authorities access to your smart home camera's footage unless they're shown a warrant or court order. If you're wondering why they're specifying that, it's because we've now learned Google and Amazon can do just the opposite: they'll allow police to get this data without a warrant if police claim there's been an emergency. And while Google says that it hasn't used this power, Amazon's admitted to doing it almost a dozen times this year.
Earlier this month my colleague Sean Hollister wrote about how Amazon, the company behind the smart doorbells and security systems, will indeed give police that warrantless access to customers' footage in those...