Ring’s controversial, AI-powered “Search Party” feature isn’t intended to always be limited only to dogs, the company’s founder, Jamie Siminoff, told Ring employees in an internal email obtained by 404 Media.
In October, Ring launched Search Party, an on-by-default feature that links together Ring cameras in a neighborhood and uses AI to search for specific lost dogs, essentially creating a networked, automated surveillance system. The feature got some attention at the time, but faced extreme backlash after Ring and Siminoff promoted Search Party during a Super Bowl ad. 404 Media obtained an email that Siminoff sent to all Ring employees in early October, soon after the feature’s launch, which said the feature was introduced “first for finding dogs,” but that it or features like it would be expanded to “zero out crime in neighborhoods.”
“This is by far the most innovation that we have launched in the history of Ring. And it is not only the quantity, but quality,” Siminoff wrote. “I believe that the foundation we created with Search Party, first for finding dogs, will end up becoming one of the most important pieces of tech and innovation to truly unlock the impact of our mission. You can now see a future where we are able to zero out crime in neighborhoods. So many things to do to get there but for the first time ever we have the chance to fully complete what we started.”
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No kidding? Next thing you will be telling us that chatcontrol and age checks on the internet will be used for more than just protecting kids from pedophiles and be extended to crushing dissent and opposition and democracy itself, and building social scores on us with all information including these cameras that will be used secretly against us in a way we cannot know or challenge to determine our jobs, background checks, police scrutiny, how courts and government treats you, how business treats you, the prices you are offered online and in digital price tag stores (coming soon,) and even what search results you are shown. All calculated by the antichrist’s company, for said pedophile or pedophile adjacent politicians deciding which of us are undesirable, and given a way to slip names of people into the bad score list themselves, always a selling perk under the table to leaders.
It’s always just a trojan horse to get in the walls. It will never end with finding pets, with stopping child abuse, what have you. They find the instance that no one can disagree with then accuse people of helping child abusers, maybe you are a child abuser yourself! It’s not subtle. All done by people that are mostly on the epstein’s redacted and unreleased pages for actually fucking children.
Dont forget claims they also ate children.
I have to say, it’s nice that they got called out on this immediately for a change.
And in other breaking news: the sky is blue, tree pretty, and fire hot.
Only if it’s a lemon tree.
As long as there are no whores about.
Hey! It’s their chinese year, show some respect!
I bet we could convince the lemon stealing whores to join the lemon party.
A lemon tree, my dear Watson?
Why anyone would have non-locally hosted video surveillance in and around their home is beyond me.
You’re basically begging corporations/governments to spy on you.
This is what the data centers are for. And also why all hard drive capacity for 2026 has already been sold. Video takes up a massive amount of space.
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Breaking news: Fire is hot.
Ok guys, hear me out.
I need you to buy these cameras and put them on your face.
We will record your video for you and keep it safe for you and never give your data to anybody and we’ll do all of this for free.
We’ll also give you all of the software and setup all of the servers for you. Don’t you worry your silly head about needing to learn anything about how to use technology, just give us your life-long dependence as we’ll take care of everything. Also, AI.*
Also, you will help save puppies and children and you are on the side of puppies and children, right? This is a great deal! You can stop reading here, just click the button to agree… for the puppies.
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You also grant to us full, exclusive, worldwide, in perpetuity, until the sun falls the rights to use your likeness, words, thoughts, essence, and produces in any manner that we, in our sole discretion, see fit and you also agree to submit to binding arbitration for any disputes
In exchange, We will never give away your data. But we will ruthlessly exploit OUR licensed copy of your data to sell to anybody who can do a wire transfer.
It’s about dogs and crime. Sure.
Lol fucking duh
What if your kid runs off? Your elderly mother wondered off? A break in was reported down the road? What if all non whites are labeled terrorist? We need to watch you 24/7. Obey
Yeah, we all saw that coming and it’s exactly why everyone’s freaking out about it.
fuckin’… they were expanding into dogs to distract from what the system was really for
I never even heard of it before the superb owl ad. I couldn’t believe how dirty it was to tug at our heartstrings to make us pay them to spy on us.
What the fuck, America?
Wait till you learn about flock cameras and the raven sound detection
Is that the one listening out for gunshots? I don’t necessarily have a problem with that unless it’s listening in on conversations or something. But that would be a pretty good mic.
always assume the equipment of our open air prison panopticon is more capable than they admit, but also never let them stop you from speaking truth
No its only for listening for lost dog barks. /s
Hell, they were saying it was for dogs so stupid people would get their heart strings pulled and blindly sign up.
