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Welcome to 1984? Google acquires home security camera company Dropcam
2014-06-23 20:18:06| Extremetech
Google is moving quickly to establish a foothold in your home: After acquiring Nest Labs, it's now acquiring Dropcam -- a startup that makes cloud-based security cameras for your home -- for $555 million in cash. The question now, of course, is whether people will be comfortable giving Google a potential pervasive peephole into their homes, rather than a small, innocuous startup taking a gander.
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