"Ring's Super Bowl ad appeared intended to inspire hope: a neighborhood harnessing the power of technology to find a lost dog: a distraught girl misses her pet, Milo, who has gone missing. Gone are the times of putting up missing posters. Simply posting Milo's photo through the Ring app automatically alerts a host of nearby cameras to use AI to look for a match, the ad says. A neighbor then arrives on their porch with Milo, safe and sound."
"Viewers wondered: if the company could quickly access hundreds of Ring cameras in a neighborhood to find a dog, what's stopping it from targeting a person in the same way? In Guthrie's case, the FBI released a video Tuesday showing a masked person at her doorstep. But the footage appears to have been retrieved from a Google Nest camera that officials previously said was disconnected and lacking an active monthly subscription for premium features. Without a subscription, users cannot typically store footage."
Smart home cameras collect continuous video that can be stored by companies and potentially accessed by third parties. Ring promoted an AI Search Party feature that alerts nearby cameras to locate a lost dog, prompting worries that the same networked access could be used to search for people. The FBI released footage of a masked person at Nancy Guthrie's doorstep that appears to have come from a Google Nest camera reportedly disconnected and without a subscription, raising questions about how footage was retrieved. These developments intensify concerns that home camera feeds could become part of broader government surveillance systems.
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