PASSAGE OF THE DAY: "Meanwhile, Amazon's Ring learned the hard way that Americans don't want their doorbells turned into a police surveillance network. The company killed its partnership with Flock Safety, which makes license plate readers for cops, after their Super Bowl ad about finding a lost dog sparked privacy concerns."
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STORY: "Ring Kills Surveillance Partnership After Dystopian Super Bowl Ad," published by Raw America, on February 15, 2026. Raw America calls itself 'The fastest-growing people powered news network in America. Investigative journalism, analysis and Capitol Hill reporting."
GIST: Meanwhile, Amazon's Ring learned the hard way that Americans don't want their doorbells turned into a police surveillance network.
The company killed its partnership with Flock Safety, which makes license plate readers for cops, after their Super Bowl ad about finding a lost dog sparked privacy concerns.
The ad showed a "Search Party" feature tracking a missing yellow lab named Milo through interconnected doorbell cameras. Instead of a heartwarming feeling, viewers got creeped out.
"Users expressed unease that the new feature presented as a technological advance appeared capable of enabling the authorities to kind tap into thousands of cameras that could track people's everyday movements," the Times reported.
Senator Ed Markey wrote to Amazon demanding they stop using facial recognition. He called the partnership's end "an important step in guarding against the ever-expanding network of surveillance technologies."
Ring insisted the integration "never launched, so no Ring customer videos were ever sent to Flock Safety." Translation: we got caught before we could turn your front door into a cop shop.
This is exactly the kind of corporate surveillance story that gets buried. Raw America digs into the stories that actually affect your daily life. Join thousands of readers who choose independent journalism over corporate propaganda."
The entire story can be read at:
https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/120008354894645705/1325034683036671617
PUBLISHER'S NOTE: I am monitoring this case/issue/resource. Keep your eye on the Charles Smith Blog for reports on developments. The Toronto Star, my previous employer for more than twenty incredible years, has put considerable effort into exposing the harm caused by Dr. Charles Smith and his protectors - and into pushing for reform of Ontario's forensic pediatric pathology system. The Star has a "topic" section which focuses on recent stories related to Dr. Charles Smith. It can be found at: http://www.thestar.com/topic/charlessmith. Information on "The Charles Smith Blog Award"- and its nomination process - can be found at: http://smithforensic.blogspot.com/2011/05/charles-smith-blog-award-nominations.html Please send any comments or information on other cases and issues of interest to the readers of this blog to: hlevy15@gmail.com. Harold Levy: Publisher: The Charles Smith Blog.
SEE BREAKDOWN OF SOME OF THE ON-GOING INTERNATIONAL CASES (OUTSIDE OF THE CONTINENTAL USA) THAT I AMFINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL WORD: (Applicable to all of our wrongful conviction cases): "Whenever there is a wrongful conviction, it exposes errors in our criminal legal system, and we hope that this case — and lessons from it — can prevent future injustices."
Lawyer Radha Natarajan:
Executive Director: New England Innocence Project;
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FINAL, FINAL WORD: "Since its inception, the Innocence Project has pushed the criminal legal system to confront and correct the laws and policies that cause and contribute to wrongful convictions. They never shied away from the hard cases — the ones involving eyewitness identifications, confessions, and bite marks. Instead, in the course of presenting scientific evidence of innocence, they've exposed the unreliability of evidence that was, for centuries, deemed untouchable." So true!
Christina Swarns: Executive Director: The Innocence Project;
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