{"id":215055,"date":"2026-02-18T17:42:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/news-12-long-island\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T23:20:09","slug":"news-12-long-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/18\/news-12-long-island\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Long Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/rings-super-bowl-ad-sparks-privacy-concerns-over-new-search-party-feature\">News 12 | Long Island<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/rings-super-bowl-ad-sparks-privacy-concerns-over-new-search-party-feature\">https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/rings-super-bowl-ad-sparks-privacy-concerns-over-new-search-party-feature<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-18 17:42:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"longisland.news12.com\">longisland.news12.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Super Bowl commercial for Ring doorbell cameras has sparked a debate over privacy, even as the company insists its newest feature was built with strong safeguards.<\/p>\n<p>The ad introduced Search Party, a tool designed to help locate lost pets.<\/p>\n<p>The company is not accused of any wrongdoing. Still, the ad quickly generated concern and speculation online about how similar technology might be used in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s for a purpose, to find that dog in this case,\u201d said Lance Ulanoff, editor-at-large at TechRadar. \u201cBut what\u2019s to say they won\u2019t use it in other ways? We immediately were like, does this also mean you can find people?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An Amazon spokesperson said Search Party was built with strong privacy protections. Camera owners must opt in on a case-by-case basis if they want to share their footage to assist in a pet search. According to the company, no videos are shared automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Jamie Siminoff, the founder of Ring, emphasized that the feature\u2019s capabilities are currently limited.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now, the Search Party feature is built just for dogs,\u201d Siminoff said. \u201cSo it\u2019s built to look for dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Ring already offers another feature known as Community Requests, which is used by law enforcement agencies, including the Old Westbury Police Department and several others across Long Island. Through a third-party evidence management system, investigators can request video footage from Ring camera owners in specific areas.<\/p>\n<p>Stuart Cameron, chief of the Old Westbury Police Department, said participation is not automatic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s all 100% voluntary,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cI think the Super Bowl commercial that Ring had made it look like it was an automated process where cameras could just be accessed without people\u2019s consent, and that caused a lot of pushback.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An Amazon spokesperson added that only local law enforcement agencies can create Community Requests.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/rings-super-bowl-ad-sparks-privacy-concerns-over-new-search-party-feature\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News 12 | Long Island https:\/\/longisland.news12.com\/rings-super-bowl-ad-sparks-privacy-concerns-over-new-search-party-feature Publish Date: 2026-02-18 17:42:00 Source Domain: longisland.news12.com A Super&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215056,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/images-cf.news12static.com\/3kqcuzntcg31\/5InXzwE7FbLzAAaqLeq1jT\/ab1a8753f6c6a7b69ccd0426ddbac253\/b47db7de-1d10-4f42-9cf6-77a826c6ac27.jpg?fit=thumb&w=600&h=340&q=80&fm=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215055","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\/215055"}],"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=215055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215057,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215055\/revisions\/215057"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}