"It does not take an imagination of any sort to envision this being tweaked to work against suspected criminals, undocumented immigrants, or others deemed 'suspicious' by people in the neighborhood. Many of these use cases are how Ring has been used by people on its dystopian "Neighbors" app for years."
"Ring rose to prominence as a piece of package theft prevention tech owned by Amazon and by forming partnerships with local police around the country, asking them to shill their doorbell cameras to people in their neighborhoods in return for a system that allowed police to request footage from individual users without a warrant."
""a clumsy attempt by Ring to put a cuddly face on a rather dystopian reality: widespread networked surveillance by a company that has cozy relationships with law enforcement and other equally invasive surveillance companies.""
Ring's Super Bowl commercial shows how individual doorbell cameras can be joined into a single system to locate a lost dog. That networked capability creates privacy risks when used to identify or track people instead of pets. The system can be adapted to target suspected criminals, undocumented immigrants, or others labeled 'suspicious' by neighbors. Users on the Neighbors app have already used Ring to report and surveil people in communities. Ring rose to prominence as Amazon-owned package-theft prevention technology and formed partnerships with local police that encouraged camera adoption in exchange for a mechanism allowing police to request user footage without warrants.
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