The face-recognising camera stays at home; its retention terms stay out of sight

Images processed at home

The entry point of the three hubs Ugreen has opened is the HomeAgent HA100: 26 TOPS of compute at a 1,799 dollar list price. At the top of the line sits the MasterAgent MA100, which runs on Nvidia Jetson Thor for 2,070 TOPS at a 20,000 dollar list price. The SynCare cameras that attach to the hubs do facial recognition and package detection; on the company's own account images are processed locally, stored data is encrypted with AES-256 and remote access is end-to-end encrypted.^[1]

Those three statements say separate things. Local processing states where the computation happens; encryption with AES-256 states how data sitting on a disk is protected. Neither says how long an image is held, who can open it, or how somebody walking past the house can get their own footage deleted. Ugreen opened pre-orders on September 3 and keeps them open to October 27, and says shipments begin in January 2027.^[1]

The agent that curates the album

In the same week Google connected its agent, Gemini Spark, to Google Photos. Plain Gemini could search by people, places and things; Spark can edit photos and file them into albums, share albums through connected apps and pull text out of an image. Support opens to AI Pro and Ultra subscribers in the US.^[2]

Ugreen and Google both define a new power over personal images while leaving the limits of that power in the same place: each announcement gives compute, price or the subscriber tier, and neither gives a retention period or a deletion path. The plainest explanation may be that the companies publish those terms in product documentation and that these two reports simply did not go there; until those documents are read, the local-processing claim cannot be tested.^{[1], [2]}

The document that would close the gap

Making that test concrete is not hard. If Ugreen publishes a document setting out a retention period and access terms for the SynCare cameras before shipments begin in January 2027, the local-processing claim becomes checkable; without such a document the claim stays at the level of an announcement. What to look for is simple: how many days a recording is held, who can open it, and where a person who was recorded sends a deletion request.^[1]

On the Google Photos side the test looks a little different. When Gemini Spark shares an album through connected apps, the image leaves the account that holds the library. What decides the question at that point is whether the deletion path reaches the shared copies. An activity log showing which action the agent took and when would also show whether a share can be pulled back.^[2]