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Title: ‘Dystopian’ Ring Search Party feature sparks public backlash [Video] Post by: HCK on February 16, 2026, 04:05:03 pm ‘Dystopian’ Ring Search Party feature sparks public backlash [Video]
<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2026/02/Tone-deaf-Ring-Search-Party-feature-sparks-public-backlash.jpeg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1600)</div><p><a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/amazon/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Amazon[/url] apparently thought the world would respond with a collective “awww” when it announced an expansion of its Ring Search Party feature to help find lost dogs, promoted via a 30-second Super Bowl ad (below). Instead, it’s being widely panned as a dystopian move in <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/09/doj-faces-investigation-over-removal-of-ice-tracking-apps-from-the-app-store/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">the current climate[/url].</p> <p>Since the company has recently rolled out a facial recognition capability for the Ring video doorbell, people drew the obvious and exceedingly short line between surveilling for dogs to surveilling for people …</p> <a data-layer-pagetype="post" data-layer-postcategory="amazon,homekit,privacy" data-layer-viewtype="unknown" data-post-id="1038811" href="https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/11/dystopian-ring-search-party-feature-sparks-public-backlash-video/#more-1038811" class="more-link">more…[/url] Source: ‘Dystopian’ Ring Search Party feature sparks public backlash [Video] (https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/11/dystopian-ring-search-party-feature-sparks-public-backlash-video/) |