Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad sparks backlash amid fears of mass surveillance

The ad promotes Ring cameras’ new capability to search neighborhoods for a lost dog. | Screenshot from Ring video

Ring's new Search Party feature has once again drawn backlash for the company. A 30-second ad that aired during Sunday's Super Bowl showed Ring cameras "surveilling" neighborhoods to locate a lost dog. In the current political climate, a prime-time ad celebrating neighborhood surveillance struck a nerve

People voiced concerns across social media that the AI-powered technology...