{"id":213011,"date":"2026-02-13T07:26:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/amazon-cancels-ring-flock-deal-amid-privacy-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T07:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T12:50:09","slug":"amazon-cancels-ring-flock-deal-amid-privacy-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/amazon-cancels-ring-flock-deal-amid-privacy-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon cancels Ring-Flock deal amid privacy backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/san.com\/cc\/amazon-cancels-ring-flock-deal-amid-privacy-backlash\/\">Amazon cancels Ring-Flock deal amid privacy backlash<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/san.com\/cc\/amazon-cancels-ring-flock-deal-amid-privacy-backlash\/\">https:\/\/san.com\/cc\/amazon-cancels-ring-flock-deal-amid-privacy-backlash\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-13 07:26:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"san.com\">san.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Amazon said it has\u00a0scrapped plans\u00a0to link its\u00a0Ring doorbell cameras\u00a0to the police tech company Flock Safety. The decision comes amid mounting criticism over privacy concerns, just days after Amazon aired a Ring ad during the Super Bowl, which renewed scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>The proposed partnership, announced in October, would have introduced a feature called \u201ccommunity requests\u201d that would allow Ring users to opt in and share doorbell footage with law enforcement. The program had yet to launch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-san-app-download__title\">\n\t\t\tDownload the SAN app today to stay up-to-date with Unbiased. Straight Facts\u2122.\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-san-app-download__subtitle\">\n\t\t\tPoint phone camera here\t\t<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-super-bowl-ad-sparks-privacy-concerns\">Super Bowl ad sparks privacy concerns<\/h3>\n<p>During the Super Bowl on Sunday, Amazon aired a commercial promoting a program similar to community requests, but it allowed Ring users to share doorbell camera video to help find lost dogs. The program, called Search Party, received significant criticism online. <\/p>\n<p>Many users noted that the same cameras used for Search Party could be paired with facial recognition technology, allowing users and police to track people. Flock had no connection to the Search Party program. <\/p>\n<p>Following the commercial, Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., wrote a letter to Amazon calling the commercial and technology \u201ccreepy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Search Party from Ring | Be A Hero In Your Neighborhood\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OheUzrXsKrY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-companies-end-partnership\">Companies end partnership<\/h3>\n<p>On Thursday, just days after the commercial aired, Amazon and Flock both announced their partnership had been canceled. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can confirm that Flock\u2019s intended integration with Community Requests has been cancelled,\u201d an Amazon spokesperson told NBC News. \u201cThis integration was never live, and no videos were ever shared between these services. Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated. We therefore made the joint decision to cancel the integration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Flock posted a similar statement&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/san.com\/cc\/amazon-cancels-ring-flock-deal-amid-privacy-backlash\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon cancels Ring-Flock deal amid privacy backlash https:\/\/san.com\/cc\/amazon-cancels-ring-flock-deal-amid-privacy-backlash\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-13 07:26:00 Source Domain: san.com&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/san.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-1062204468_Smith_CollectionGadoGetty_Images_clean.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213011"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213013,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213011\/revisions\/213013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}