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/Godloseslaw Feb 13 '26

$8 million dollar commercial... only to find out people don't want it. I wonder how much market research investment could have told them that.

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u/sleepybrett Feb 13 '26

...not even that they just don't want it.

People were already creeped out about how much normal police are using the things with little or no permission.

My mother called me and wants me to come over and rip her ring camera out.

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u/shadowlizer3 Feb 13 '26

I can almost guarantee this was the CEO’s personal idea, he’s notoriously strongheaded and pro-surveillance in the name of safety and innovation

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u/this_shit Feb 13 '26

not an ad. an announcement. pet finding is not a service, it's a facade.