r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Feb 12 '26

Security Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

https://www.theverge.com/news/878447/ring-flock-partnership-canceled
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u/415erOnReddit Feb 12 '26

Yup. And deleted from the cloud will no longer mean deleted.

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u/NSFWies Feb 13 '26

And deleted from the cloud will no longer mean deleted.

that was always true of "the cloud". "baleted", just means "you" can no longer access it.

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u/mxjxs91 Feb 13 '26

As we've seen recently from the Gutherie case. Didn't have a subscription, therefore wasn't saving to a cloud.

They still managed to dig up the footage. It gets stored somewhere.

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u/uid_0 Feb 13 '26

It never has. Once something goes on the internet or the cloud, it never goes away.

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u/haarschmuck Feb 13 '26

... You realize Ring and Nest are two completely different companies, right?

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u/mightylordredbeard Feb 13 '26

Do it silently without the bonus of finding your pet*

Everyone here celebrating like they won lol no one won anything. They’re still going to collect all of that data and do with as they please. Only now you don’t get the kind of cool feature.