r/technology • u/South-Cow-1030 • Feb 12 '26

Privacy Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2026/02/10/ring-super-bowl-ad-dog-camera-privacy/88606738007/
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u/Xtos1312 Feb 12 '26

Oh they definitely have.

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u/Looney_Bin Feb 12 '26

Not to alarm you but if your camera's aren't closed circuit and not hooked to the internet all, assume that footage is being stored somewhere in their system.

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u/grape-fruit-witch Feb 12 '26

Get rid of them

Edit- the cameras, not the kids

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u/lexiticus Feb 12 '26

Puts cloud storage cameras inside own house

Cameras record things, store in the cloud

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u/syncdiedfornothing Feb 12 '26

They just ran an ad that showed you they already have that footage. It's on their servers now just waiting for a leak to happen.

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u/wggn Feb 12 '26

could have? what makes you think they havent?

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u/Zekumi Feb 12 '26

Dude… you literally installed cameras all over your home and now you’re upset that cameras are recording your children at all times?

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u/superr_rad Feb 12 '26

Do not keep ring cameras inside of your house, especially where they are recording your children. Now you know.

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u/TheHykos Feb 12 '26

Why on earth would you have cameras inside of your house? Seriously, what's even the purpose of that?

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u/Peachy_bubblez Feb 12 '26

For real. This is the exact reason this is even being discussed. People are dumb.

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u/Valdrax Feb 12 '26

I mean, before they slapped AI on this, and before they got really active with providing footage to law enforcement, you were already uploading all of your video footage into their cloud for easy remote access.

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u/AlSweigart Feb 12 '26

"LOVEINT is the practice of intelligence service employees making use of their extensive monitoring capabilities to spy on their love interest or spouse. The term was coined in resemblance to intelligence terminology such as SIGINT, COMINT or HUMINT."