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Leaked Email Suggests Ring Plans to Expand ‘Search Party’ Surveillance Beyond Dogs
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Breaking news: Fire is hot.
this post was submitted on 18 Feb 2026
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No way! It seemed so authentic when they said they’d search for dogs.
Imagine how evil you have to be to use dogs to sell mass surveillance.
Ancient book of Arabic numerals reveals 2 comes after 1.
I have to say, it's nice that they got called out on this immediately for a change.
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Imagine spending millions on an ad to alert people to your evil scheme.
Proof that you don’t have to be smart to be rich and powerful.
It shows you how insular these people must be. That ad was the result of meeting after meeting, plan after plan. They had convinced themselves that the public would eat it up. We would be like "Holy shit that's amazing, let's give you ALL our data and video and privacy!". They actually thought we would go for it. lol.
To be fair, I'm actually pleasantly surprised that people didn't go for it.
It's not like majority of people seemed to give a shit about privacy not too long ago...
Same.
I was sure the emotional manipulation tactic would be extremely effective. Guess it was a little too blatant, even for the general public.
My 12 year old was sold on the idea. But she's 12 and may love dogs more than people.
I'm in my 30s and I like most dogs more than most people.
Yep, 99% of dogs beat 99.99999% of people. And 99% of cats do the same.
I'm with you on dogs.
But i'd never trust a cat... They know why.
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The proof for that is abundant.
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I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you.
Ok… I’m not shocked at all.
No kidding? Next thing you will be telling us that chatcontrol and age checks on the internet will be used for more than just protecting kids from pedophiles and be extended to crushing dissent and opposition and democracy itself, and building social scores on us with all information including these cameras that will be used secretly against us in a way we cannot know or challenge to determine our jobs, background checks, police scrutiny, how courts and government treats you, how business treats you, the prices you are offered online and in digital price tag stores (coming soon,) and even what search results you are shown. All calculated by the antichrist's company, for said pedophile or pedophile adjacent politicians deciding which of us are undesirable, and given a way to slip names of people into the bad score list themselves, always a selling perk under the table to leaders.
It's always just a trojan horse to get in the walls. It will never end with finding pets, with stopping child abuse, what have you. They find the instance that no one can disagree with then accuse people of helping child abusers, maybe you are a child abuser yourself! It's not subtle. All done by people that are mostly on the epstein's redacted and unreleased pages for actually fucking children.
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And in other breaking news: the sky is blue, tree pretty, and fire hot.
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It's about dogs and crime. Sure.
You know.. here's the thing..
Years ago, I'd be on Reddit and reading the usual rants and raves about the government, and how the public should be wary of it and we are heading into a security state.. and I always positied that the real threat actors WRT privacy and security were going to be companies like facebook and google and the businesses that made internet-connected devices.
Compared to them, as far as data colleciton and surveillance of people - the government was filled with rank amateurs.
I'd consistently get downvoted or pooh-poohed for being "naive."
God fucking dammit.. on this.. I am absolutely pissed off that I was calling this one - and have been - for over a decade.
FML, I hate this SOOOOOO much.
edward snowden pretty much spilled the beans on government mass surveillance many years ago, but most people just said "meh...whatever"
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Why anyone would have non-locally hosted video surveillance in and around their home is beyond me.
You're basically begging corporations/governments to spy on you.
This is what the data centers are for. And also why all hard drive capacity for 2026 has already been sold. Video takes up a massive amount of space.
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fuckin'… they were expanding into dogs to distract from what the system was really for
I never even heard of it before the superb owl ad. I couldn't believe how dirty it was to tug at our heartstrings to make us pay them to spy on us.
What the fuck, America?
Wait till you learn about flock cameras and the raven sound detection
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The whole "find lost dogs" thing was likely the result of a single meeting with the agenda item "how do we sell this thing we are already doing as anything other than mass surveillance for state actors?" They probably ended it early.
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Between Ring and Jeffrey Epstein, it's surprising how explicit criminals are about their criminal intentions.
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Off the record, Siminoff could be heard saying "Dogs today, blacks tomorrow and people later."^[Citation needed]
No shit Sherlock
Lol fucking duh
What if your kid runs off? Your elderly mother wondered off? A break in was reported down the road? What if all non whites are labeled terrorist? We need to watch you 24/7. Obey
Y’all just need to think about the shareholders.
They lied?!
Yeah, we all saw that coming and it's exactly why everyone's freaking out about it.
c/noshitsherlock
I am Jack's complete lack of surprise.
No shit
Boycott ring
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Wait… what?!
They mean to cats too, right?!?
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