Nest cam status lights can no longer be turned off in the name of privacy and customers are pissed

Manuel Vonau writes:

Nest security cam owners have received an email from Google on Wednesday that left many disgruntled, to put it lightly. The company is introducing a new policy that forces Nest Cam, Dropcam, and Nest Hello status lights to remain on permanently while recording and blink when users are looking at live footage – all in the name of privacy.

Customers are in uproar against the changes. In the Google Nest community forum, multiple threads were opened that complain about the permanent lights and argue that, in fact, users’ privacy is reduced by them.