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Why ‘deleted’ doesn’t mean gone: How police recovered Nancy Guthrie’s Nest Doorbell footage

black-and-white night vision photos taken from a doorbell camera showing a masked and gloved intruder on a doorstep. The first image is a full-body shot and the third shows the intruder reaching for the camera with a gloved hand.

Video footage from Nancy Guthrie’s doorbell camera was recovered by Google and released by the FBI. | Image: The Verge, FBI

FBI Director Kash Patel said yesterday that investigators recovered footage from Savannah Guthrie’s mother’s doorbell camera using “residual data located in backend systems.” This claim has many home security camera users asking an uncomfortable question: Is your data really gone when you hit delete?

When Nancy Guthrie went missing, officials said she had a doorbell camera, but that it had been forcibly removed, and she did not have a subscription. This meant there were no videos stored in the cloud. Ten days later, the FBI released footage from the camera, which was revealed to be a Google Nest Doorbell, clearly showing the masked suspect.

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Read the full story at The Verge.

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/877235/nancy-guthrie-google-nest-cam-video-storage

Original Source: https://www.theverge.com/tech/877235/nancy-guthrie-google-nest-cam-video-storage

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