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Anthony Spadafora

How did the FBI get Nancy Guthrie's Google Nest camera footage if it was disabled — and what does it mean for your privacy?

A smartphone showing images captured by Nancy Guthrie's video doorbell next to Nest Doorbell (battery) mounted outside a home.

There’s finally been a breakthrough in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie after the FBI managed to recover footage from the video doorbell outside her home. However, without an active Nest Aware subscription, questions have been raised as to how this footage was recovered in the first place and what this means for the privacy of other Nest users.

The mother of "Today" co-host Savannah Guthrie was reported missing on Sunday, February 1 after being dropped off at her home the evening before. Normally, footage from her video doorbell’s security camera would have been used to look for possible leads. In this case, not only was the power cut to her home before the kidnapping but she also didn’t have a paid plan that would have uploaded any recorded clips to the cloud.

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