Nest cameras upload video clips to the cloud without an active subscription.

This fact is explained right in the Google support page linked by this article

> *The 3 hours of event video previews is available without a Google Home Premium subscription for the Nest Cam (battery) and Nest Doorbell (battery).

All of these articles trying to spin this as some surprise revelation are getting old.

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1970-01-01 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Because online journalism is journalism jr. and they can't be bothered to do basic research on their story.

	▲	fusslo 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		anecdotally i've had this conversation with 3 people (engineers) at my work today. They all thought it was crazy that without a subscription they're recording and uploading video. One person asked 'Why are we paying for a subscription if it's not for the storage and processing?' Another started talking about flock and ice right after.