[strogonoff]

Key difference is one’s revenue stream (do you profit by selling security system or through data accumulated from your customers).

> Google themselves deletes user data on their first party products after 18 months by default (referring to things like Web & App activity and Location history) and users can set it as low as 3 months, approximately the same amount of time as security footage.

Security footage is not the problem, after all you may want to look back a few days to see who was around at the time something went missing. The problem would be processing footage into data on where each individual goes, storing that and finding various ways to profit off of it. This is not necessary for the core value proposition, and in my opinion is ethically questionable.

Sure, if they don’t store it for long, and especially if they comply with GDPR, that would help. However, I’m not deeply familiar with this, but I suspect they can easily claim that they don’t store data on you and don’t need to delete it simply by storing it in a way not obviously connected to your identity—even if this connection is very easy to make at any point.