Your ring doorbell reports your movements your connected Home
The short version: A video on 'Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency' explores how Ring doorbells quietly feed your daily movements into a growing corporate-and-police surveillance web.
Our Take
The creator behind Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency makes a point that's easy to forget when you're just trying to see who's at the door: your Ring camera isn't only watching your porch, it's logging a pattern of life — who comes and goes, when, and how often — that can be requested by police or shared through partnerships you never explicitly agreed to. That's the same logic that powers Flock Safety's ALPR network, just aimed at your doorstep instead of the street in front of your house.
What ties Ring and Flock together is the business model, not the hardware. Both turn private purchases into nodes in a larger tracking grid, and both rely on owners not asking too many questions about retention, access, or who else gets to query the data. A doorbell camera plus a block full of ALPR-equipped intersections means your comings and goings are recorded almost everywhere, by devices you may not even own.
We think this video is worth a watch because it pushes people to think about consent and scale, not just convenience. If you want to see how dense that tracking grid already is in your own neighborhood, check our camera map, and if you'd rather push back than just observe, our take-action page has concrete next steps.
This is DeFlock The USA’s original commentary. The video above is the work of Digital ID, Mass Surveillance and Digital Currency, published on YouTube — full credit to the creator.