{"id":215989,"date":"2026-02-21T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/amazon-owned-ring-and-flock-broke-up-privacy-experts-ask-should-schools-too\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T14:20:09","slug":"amazon-owned-ring-and-flock-broke-up-privacy-experts-ask-should-schools-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/21\/amazon-owned-ring-and-flock-broke-up-privacy-experts-ask-should-schools-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon-owned Ring and Flock Broke Up. Privacy Experts Ask: Should Schools, Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Amazon-owned Ring and Flock Broke Up. Privacy Experts Ask: Should Schools, Too?<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/amazon-owned-ring-flock-broke-113000060.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-02-21 06:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.yahoo.com<\/a><\/p>\n

School (in)Security is our biweekly briefing on the latest school safety news, vetted by Mark Keierleber.\u00a0Subscribe here.<\/p>\n

Milo went missing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Yet it wasn\u2019t the lost puppy that gave people the jitters \u2014 it was the promise behind the story: that a communitywide web of home security systems could transform a neighborhood into a \u201cSearch Party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eamonn Fitzmaurice\/The 74 (Source: Ryan Murphy\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n

The Super Bowl commercial set off public backlash against two leading surveillance companies: Amazon, which owns Ring doorbell cameras, and Flock Safety, which makes license plate reader cameras. Within days, the e-commerce giant announced it was ditching a planned partnership with Atlanta-based Flock.<\/p>\n

Privacy advocates said the breakup represented a rare, high-profile retreat from the expansion of surveillance-driven policing \u2014 and that school leaders should take note.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that Amazon is reconsidering their relationship with Flock should be a very large and glaring sign that schools should also perhaps reconsider that relationship,\u201d said Kristin Woelfel, policy counsel for equity in civic technology at the nonprofit Center for Democracy and Technology.<\/p>\n

In an investigation last week, The 74 revealed that police nationwide routinely tapped into school district Flock cameras to assist President Donald Trump\u2019s mass immigration crackdown, which has also led to public outcry and protest over the U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u2019s unprecedented surveillance tactics.<\/p>\n

Click here to read the full story. You can also listen to me talk about my latest reporting on the K12 Tech Talk podcast and on Your Call Media Roundtable on San Francisco\u2019s KALW public radio.<\/p>\n

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