Another RING Doorbell Alert! Authority Access, Personal Footage & More (How To Opt-OUT)

Our Take

Curated Conversation's latest alert is a useful reminder that the surveillance dragnet isn't limited to license plate cameras bolted to poles at intersections. Ring doorbells sit on millions of front porches, and every partnership Amazon strikes with a company like Flock Safety chips away at the line between "my personal camera" and "a node in a nationwide tracking system." When private footage can be requested, shared, or piped into third-party platforms, the difference between a homeowner's security device and a policing tool gets blurry fast — and that blurriness almost never favors the resident.

We can't verify every technical claim in the video, but the broader pattern it's pointing to is exactly what we track here: companies quietly stitching together consumer devices and public infrastructure into one searchable surveillance layer, often with opt-out settings buried where most people will never find them. That's the same playbook Flock has run with ALPR cameras nationwide, and it's why knowing what's watching you — and what your rights are — matters as much for your doorbell as it does for the camera at the end of your street.

Credit to Curated Conversation for keeping pressure on Ring's expanding footprint. If you want to see how thick the ALPR network already is in your area, check the map, and if you're ready to push back on this kind of creeping data-sharing, our take-action page has concrete steps to start with.