Ring’s adorable surveillance hellscape
TL;DR
Ring's Super Bowl ad can be seen as heartwarming or as a step towards a pervasive surveillance network threatening privacy. The Vergecast discusses the ad's dual nature and its implications.
You can watch Ring's recent Super Bowl ad and see a cute story about dogs being reunited with their families. You can also watch the very same ad and see the seeds being planted for a massively connected, utterly ubiquitous surveillance system that will end the concept of privacy forever. Maybe you can even see both at the same time.
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On this episode of The Vergecast, Nilay and David talk about the Super Bowl ad that worried so many people, why Ring would build a feature like th …