Shortly after a report revealed that Google may be interested in purchasing home-surveillance camera maker Dropcam, the Search giant has snatched up the company for a cool $555 million – well, technically it’s Nest that bought Dropcam, but Nest itself is one of Google’s most recent purchases, a deal worth $3.2 billion. While Google may be the ultimate owner of Dropcam, it looks like the camera maker will be incorporated in Nest, which means Nest’s privacy policy will govern Dropcam’s cameras, at least for the time being. “Once the deal closes, we’ll incorporate Dropcam into how we do business at Nest. That includes how we handle everything from customer support to customer privacy,” Nest wrote on its blog. “Like Nest customer
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