Comment by anfogoat

> This is a "In Case of Emergency Break Glass" type of situation

The only difference being that when you pull the alarm for lols there are consequences -- for you. Members of law enforcement on the other hand do that on the regular and face zero consequences.

That said, Google doing this might ease the pressure to enable this across the board through legislation. So maybe a positive in the end; I wouldn't really expect any privacy with Nest anyways.