After Ring privacy backlash, company abandons plans for police partnership<div class="feat-image">
</div><p>Amazon’s plan to turn Ring doorbells into a neighborhood-wide surveillance system was roundly <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/11/dystopian-ring-search-party-feature-sparks-public-backlash-video/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">denounced as dystopian[/url] even when it was just searching for lost dogs.</p>
<p>The company does at least seem to have learned from the <a href="
https://9to5mac.com/guides/privacy/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">privacy[/url] backlash, announcing that it has now abandoned plans for a partnership with police … </p>
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After Ring privacy backlash, company abandons plans for police partnership
