How facial recognition is redefining public privacy :: WRAL.com
How facial recognition is redefining public privacy :: WRAL.com
https://www.wral.com/news/local/facial-recognition-redefining-public-privacy-february-2026/
Publish Date: 2026-02-11 18:23:00
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The company Ring ran a Super Bowl LX advertisement for its doorbell camera feature that can find missing dogs.
Ring is a manufacturer of home security and smart home devices owned by Amazon.
The company’s ad served as a reminder that people are always recording.
“It’s just like [Amazon’s] Alexa in that [the device] is recording all of the time because she listening for you to say her name,” Triangle Forensics CEO Duke Rogers said. “So, a lot of these cameras are set to record on motion, or at least to mark the motion.
Even if users only use their cameras to see live video and don’t pay the subscription fee to have it recorded, the service still has that video, Rogers said.
“They have to be recording all of the time.”
The technology provides people with safety, which is the reason people buy doorbell cameras.
How law enforcement is using facial recognition technology
On Tuesday, the FBI released pictures and videos from a doorbell camera of a suspect in the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the 84-year-old mother of “TODAY” show anchor Savannah Guthrie.
Cameras are everywhere, and the images they capture can be used with facial recognition software to identify an individual. There are cameras in smartphones, outside homes, inside homes, gas stations, parking decks and elevators, cars, schools, stadiums, and grocery stores – they’re at your work and on your drive…
