Ring’s AI-powered “Search Party” feature, which links neighborhood cameras into a networked surveillance system to find lost dogs, was never intended to stop at pets, according to an internal email from founder Jamie Siminoff obtained by 404 Media.
Siminoff told employees in early October, shortly after the feature launched, that Search Party was introduced “first for finding dogs” and that the technology would eventually help “zero out crime in neighborhoods.” The on-by-default feature faced intense backlash after Ring promoted it during a Super Bowl ad. Ring has since also rolled out “Familiar Faces,” a facial recognition tool that identifies friends and family on a user’s camera, and “Fire Watch,” an AI-based fire alert system.
A Ring spokesperson told the publication Search Party does not process human biometrics or track people.
Article, HERE at 404 Media, but it’s behind a paywall… h/t Steve S
I guess I’m really ‘not’ surprised by this, as I have a Ring doorbell (which I’ve modified to NOT report and only does close alerts on my porch and front door). I’m betting that most folks just slap them up with no modifications and let them run/report without ever looking at the settings.
I do know that even when I get a ‘report’ of something, it is not to a specific address, but a general location. Interesting that…
This is just one more addition to the surveillance world we are becoming, when you figure in the cameras in cities, and now in the neighborhood. Sigh…
In other news, both the women and men’s hockey teams won gold medals at this year’s Olympics! That they beat the favorite Canadian teams both times is just icing on the cake as far as I’m concerned!!!
For the men, this is the first gold medal since 1980! So this ends a 46 year ‘drought’. Sadly the game was on at one in the morning, US time, so few other than the ‘dedicated’ hockey fans saw it.
Of course the left is melting down, since the players interviewed said they were “Proud to be Americans!” Can’t have that, yada, yada…
And of course there is the Liu vs. Gu comparisons of the two ethnic Chinese girls from the US who chose to participate for different countries, HERE.
One wonders what pressure was applied to Gu, or was it simply a money issue with her? After all, she’s apparently been paid millions by the CCP…
Not my circus, not my monkeys…
Louis Rossman had a video about Jailbreaking or something to the Ring. Haven’t watched it.
Anyone proposing to zero out crime with just the one bit of surveillance is probably a technocrat, and probably a lunatic.
Lot of people wound up broken after 2020, and a lot of technocrats now are excited. (I identify as a recovering technocrat.)
Yes and I’ve seen articles that Ring records even if you have it set not to. Exhibit 1 the lost grandmother (or whatever, not paying it much attention) that’s filling up the msm.
My part time gig for seven years was hand delivering notices to delinquent borrowers. Doorbell cameras became very popular to the point I was surprised when a house didn’t have them.
The US born traitor should have her citizenship questioned and revoked.
She has no birth ties to the PRC. She was hired by them. Which isn’t in any way in the spirit of the Olympics.
As to the two hockey teams, excellent on their part. The Men’s team will be at the State of the Union address invited by Trump. The Women’s team has turned down the offer.
If you have ANY camera/surveillance equipment that accesses the web you can be 100% certain that ALL the data it takes in is sent to either the manufacturer for storage or a third party. ALL of it. Ring cameras and other such systems are an Orwellian wet dream for statists seeking ever expanding control of people.
Even in your car!
Worse, I read that certain features of current-model Toyota cars are only available if you agree to allow Toyota to track your driving.
That’s information that Toyota then sells to third parties, like insurance companies.
I’ve got three cameras.
Front Door, Rear door and garage.
They record all the time, but only send me a clip if the parameters are met that I set.
Does Arlo hold all the rest for eternity?
I don’t know, I don’t care. It wouldn’t make sense economically.
If I have a break in across the street that a recording can help identify, I’m fine with that.
I hope it’s a two way street.
All- Thanks for the comments, and WRT Ring cameras, it does depend on the ‘settings’ you use. Sendarius- Good point!
Beans- Agreed, she’s a paid employee, which is actually ‘allowed’ up to a point- https://www.britannica.com/sports/Do-Olympic-Athletes-Get-Paid
That’s so that ‘impoverished’ athletes can be paid to train and get some residuals.
Big difference in this traitor, being a US born US citizen who’s being paid by the People’s Republic of China. That would be like us paying some Russian hockey players to play for us. Which is NOT allowed.
Friggin traitor. Not saying she should get the Rosenberg traitor treatment, but she should pay for it one way or another.
Beans- Yeah, yeah… $26 million is NOT impoverished… Many of the athletes get ‘sponsorships’ from various brands in their particular sports, along with grants from the USOC.