{"id":15841,"date":"2026-02-18T10:48:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=15841"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T17:50:05","slug":"leaked-email-suggests-ring-plans-to-expand-search-party-surveillance-beyond-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/leaked-email-suggests-ring-plans-to-expand-search-party-surveillance-beyond-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand \u2018Search Party\u2019 Surveillance Beyond Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are a couple clues of what they have in the works for Ring cameras, and throw in Google Nest cameras as well. They’re wanting to police neighborhoods which would involve networking neighborhood cameras with AI facial recognition and license plate reading, and why they were joining up with Flock. This is kind of the tip of a national surveillance system, and they’re getting people to buy the hardware for them as well as the connectivity, which is kind of funny as they’re profiting too. Supposedly the commercial below woke up people who are making a public display of destroying their Ring cameras, but how many of your neighbors will keep theirs, spying on you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.404media.co\/leaked-email-suggests-ring-plans-to-expand-search-party-surveillance-beyond-dogs\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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By Jason Koebler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ring\u2019s controversial, AI-powered \u201cSearch Party\u201d feature isn\u2019t intended to always be limited only to dogs, the company\u2019s founder, Jamie Siminoff, told Ring employees in an internal email obtained by 404 Media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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<\/u><\/a> 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\u2019s launch, which said the feature was introduced \u201cfirst for finding dogs,\u201d but that it or features like it would be expanded to \u201czero out crime in neighborhoods.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is by far the most innovation that we have launched in the history of Ring. And it is not only the quantity, but quality,\u201d Siminoff wrote. \u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is exciting to be back to Day 1, we are going to have to work hard and leverage everything we can, especially AI,\u201d he continued. \u201cThanks again to everyone who came together to make this week happen and I can\u2019t wait to show everyone else all the exciting things we are building over the years to come!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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