Ring paid somewhere between $8 and $10 million for a 30-second Super Bowl spot to tell 120 million viewers that their cameras now scan neighborhoods using AI.
The math is wild. Ring has roughly 20 million devices in American homes. Search Party is enabled by default. The opt-out rate on default settings in consumer tech is historically around 5%. So approximately 19 million cameras are now running AI pattern matching on anything that moves past your front door. Today the target is dogs. The same infrastructure already handles “Familiar Faces,��� which builds biometric profiles of every person your camera sees, whether they know about it or not.
Ring settled with the FTC for $5.8 million after employees had unrestricted access to customers’ bedroom and bathroom footage for years. They’re now partnered with Flock Safety, which routes footage to local law enforcement. ICE has accessed Flock data through local police departments acting as intermediaries. Senator Markey’s investigation found Ring’s privacy protections only apply to device owners. If you’re a neighbor, a delivery driver, a passerby, you have no rights and no recourse.
This tells you everything about Amazon’s actual product. The customer paid for the camera. The customer pays the electricity. The customer pays the $3.99/month subscription. And Amazon gets a surveillance grid that would cost tens of billions to build from scratch, with an AI layer activated by default, and a law enforcement pipeline already connected.
They wrapped all of that in a lost puppy commercial because that’s the only version of this story anyone would willingly opt into.
Half of Floridians are considering leaving the state due to rising costs, which include a $7 billion electricity rate hike. The new rate schedule will cost residents $1 billion, while data centers save 50 percent on their bills. From @gurleygg: https://t.co/bABWFSuUr0
Automakers want to turn cars into a subscription service, making you pay monthly or annual subscription fees for key fobs, GPS, CarPlay and more.
These add-ins are estimated to become a $200 billion market.
In 2011 Tim Walz voted to ban members of Congress from engaging in insider trading. But he didn't stop there, he spoke out about how politicians should be serving the people instead of enriching themselves.
He and his wife reportedly own no stocks.
I see people heated that no one knows to treat dead traffic lights like four-way stops. You making a real bold assumption thinking people even know what to do at those lol
@MARIAH_LEBRON I paid off a three year car loan in one year, and my score went down. (You'd think paying it off early would look good, right?) After a few months it ended up being higher. It's like others have said, it matters how many accounts you have and the age of each. It'll go back up.