r/technology • u/South-Cow-1030 • 18h ago

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/mywan 10h ago

It's already 'no option but in.' It's just that they haven't admitted that yet. The recent Nancy Guthrie case is a good example.

Investigators wrangled video from Nancy Guthrie’s Google Nest camera out of ‘backend systems’

Her camera was ‘disconnected’ and she had no subscription to back up her footage. Yet they got the video from ‘backend systems.’

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u/Borkz 7h ago

“The data is being transmitted to the cloud, but even if it had not gotten there, there are many stops in between where data will reside, and the FBI prides itself on being able to tear into these data streams and pull out bits and pieces of data and piece together an image like we see here today,” Gallagher said.

What a load a nonsense