Your Ring Camera Is STILL Spying On You

Our Take

More Perfect Union's latest breakdown does something a lot of press releases don't: it looks past the headline. Yes, Ring cut its formal data-sharing pipeline with Flock Safety. No, that doesn't mean your porch camera stopped being a potential surveillance node. Amazon still controls the backend, still fields law enforcement requests, and still has every incentive to keep police departments happy customers. Cancelling one partnership while leaving the underlying request-and-response plumbing intact is a PR reset, not a privacy win.

This is the pattern we keep seeing across the ALPR and camera-network world: companies make a show of walking back the most controversial integration while quietly preserving the mechanisms that let footage, plate scans, and location data flow to government hands without a warrant. Flock's own network of automated plate readers works the same way — decentralized, marketed as 'community safety,' but functionally a distributed surveillance system that police can query at will. Ring cameras and Flock cameras are different technologies pointed at the same outcome: a searchable record of who was where, when.

If you want to see how dense that network already is in your own neighborhood, check our camera map. And if you're a Ring owner wondering what you can actually control — sharing settings, law enforcement request logs, retention — our take-action guide walks through the steps. Credit to More Perfect Union for pushing past the corporate messaging on this one.