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Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs (www.404media.co)
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Ring’s controversial, AI-powered “Search Party” feature isn’t intended to always be limited only to dogs, the company’s founder, Jamie Siminoff, told Ring employees in an internal email obtained by 404 Media.

In October, Ring launched Search Party, an on-by-default feature that links together Ring cameras in a neighborhood and uses AI to search for specific lost dogs, essentially creating a networked, automated surveillance system. The feature got some attention at the time, but faced extreme backlash after Ring and Siminoff promoted Search Party during a Super Bowl ad. 404 Media obtained an email that Siminoff sent to all Ring employees in early October, soon after the feature’s launch, which said the feature was introduced “first for finding dogs,” but that it or features like it would be expanded to “zero out crime in neighborhoods.”

“This is by far the most innovation that we have launched in the history of Ring. And it is not only the quantity, but quality,” Siminoff wrote. “I believe that the foundation we created with Search Party, first for finding dogs, will end up becoming one of the most important pieces of tech and innovation to truly unlock the impact of our mission. You can now see a future where we are able to zero out crime in neighborhoods. So many things to do to get there but for the first time ever we have the chance to fully complete what we started.”

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[–] UnspecificGravity@piefed.social 36 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The whole "find lost dogs" thing was likely the result of a single meeting with the agenda item "how do we sell this thing we are already doing as anything other than mass surveillance for state actors?" They probably ended it early.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 3 points 14 hours ago

Blatantly ripping off the chatcontrol and age checks reasoning, and the masterbaitorbase. To protect the children, and stop pedophiles, we need to id every account, and every ip, connected to your likeness and government id, in the hands of private interests to verify at that, and record everything you say, look at , and do, combining all information on you, private from data brokers to this and government, to run ai threat assessment and social scores to secretly determine winners and losers, run by the antichrist's company, the guy that said he wants to spray his critics with fentanyl from drones.

Who could argue against surrendering every and all information to the worst companies in the world to use their dystopian new technology on if it's for the kids? I mean they know the dangers to the kids as the antichrist was a great eptein pal. It's transparent.