{"id":213139,"date":"2026-02-13T12:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T17:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/ring-ends-partnership-plans-with-flock-days-after-privacy-blowback-from-super-bowl-ad\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T14:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T19:00:14","slug":"ring-ends-partnership-plans-with-flock-days-after-privacy-blowback-from-super-bowl-ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/ring-ends-partnership-plans-with-flock-days-after-privacy-blowback-from-super-bowl-ad\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring ends partnership plans with Flock days after privacy blowback from Super Bowl ad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therecord.media\/ring-ends-partnership-with-flock-superbowl-ad\">Ring ends partnership plans with Flock days after privacy blowback from Super Bowl ad<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therecord.media\/ring-ends-partnership-with-flock-superbowl-ad\">https:\/\/therecord.media\/ring-ends-partnership-with-flock-superbowl-ad<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-13 12:37:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"therecord.media\">therecord.media<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> Ring is cancelling its partnership plans with Flock Safety, a police surveillance tech company that manages a growing network of controversial automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras, the Amazon-owned company announced Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> The announcement came days after a Ring Super Bowl ad generated backlash from consumers concerned about privacy. The ad, ostensibly about how Ring camera videos can be shared to find lost dogs, raised questions about how the facial recognition-enabled cameras can also be used to surveil and monitor the movements of people. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> Ring and Flock had announced their partnership in October, saying that Ring customers would soon be empowered to share their doorbell camera videos with police through Ring\u2019s Community Requests program. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> Ring maintains a Community Requests program with another major police surveillance tech company called Axon. Flock, however, has been far more controversial than Axon, and several cities have recently ended contracts with the company after learning that other police departments were searching their databases without authorization or that people were being tracked on behalf of immigration authorities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> The partnership between Ring and Flock had not yet launched, a fact that Amazon emphasized in a statement on the matter.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> &#8220;We can confirm that Flock\u2019s intended integration with Community Requests has been cancelled,\u201d an Amazon spokesperson said in a statement. \u201cThis integration was never live, and no videos were ever shared between these services.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> \u201cFollowing a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated,\u201d the statement said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> In a blog post on its website, Flock said it believes the decision \u201callows both companies to best serve their respective customers and communities.\u201d\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph\"> \u201cFlock remains dedicated to supporting law enforcement agencies with tools that are fully configurable to local laws&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/therecord.media\/ring-ends-partnership-with-flock-superbowl-ad\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ring ends partnership plans with Flock days after privacy blowback from Super Bowl ad https:\/\/therecord.media\/ring-ends-partnership-with-flock-superbowl-ad&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213140,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cms.therecord.media\/uploads\/format_webp\/ring_doorbell_amazon_c47ad09824.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-213139","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\/213139"}],"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=213139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213141,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213139\/revisions\/213141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}