Watch: How Ring Built a Neighborhood Spy Network With Your Help

Lots of folks have dogs. Man's Best Friend is popular for a reason; there's nothing more lovable than a loyal mutt. I have always been fond of telling people who proclaim that one can't buy love, that they have clearly never had a puppy.

Dogs are great, and we love them. In fact, we love them so much that we will go to some lengths to keep from losing them, and for a lot of people, that means installing doorbell cameras. But when a security company starts chaining the feed from these cameras to set up a neighborhood spy-camera network, well, isn't that going just a little too far?

Ring spent millions on a Super Bowl ad celebrating their camera network finding lost dogs. Reframe it: a corporation built a neighborhood surveillance grid and convinced millions of people to install it themselves. The dogs are the marketing. The data is the product. https://t.co/c8Scftj482 pic.twitter.com/sgp5pSxeWZ

— Bill Anastas (@banastas) February 9, 2026

Now, a quick look at the still in the X post here and the video (below) would seem to indicate that there is a lot of dead space in that camera grid. The Ring cameras seem to go to about the curb, leaving lots of gaps between houses.

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So, as you might expect if you have been reading my work for more than three days, I have some questions.

First: How are these all networked? Granted my vision in these areas is rather less than 20-20, but does each customer have their own dedicated server space?

Second: Who has access to all the information thus gained? To what end? Can they track your dog, assuming it does get out the front door and runs off, all the way down the street? Into the adjacent street?

Third: Does the user agreement allow the company to use feed from my camera to solve someone else's problem? I'm not necessarily against that, but I would think I would have to give permission. Of course, that permission may well be in the user agreement that nobody reads.

Fourth and finally: What happens if someone with nefarious intent gains access to this feed from all these cameras? This could be a real disaster; they could destroy evidence, or they could simply monitor the movements of people in the neighborhood, when they come and go, when their homes are empty, and so on.

Security cameras are not a bad idea. We have several around our Susitna Valley homestead, and we've gained some great footage of the comings and goings of our neighbors - moose and so on. No, I won't tell you precisely where they are, and no, they aren't Ring cameras, but another brand. Yes, I have read the user agreement, and the company claims to limit access to the data, meaning nobody looks at it unless we ask them to.

But every silver lining comes with a cloud. Like so many of the life-changing aspects of Big Tech, this is one such. Cameras can be a great crime-fighting tool, but they can also bring about shades of Big Brother.

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