Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

https://blog.ring.com/about-ring/ring-and-flock-cancel-partnership/

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Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world · 246 pts · 186d (2 replies)

Cool, I don't believe them.

paraphrand@lemmy.world · 44 pts · 186d

Everyone has learned to keep this private now. If it leaks, that’ll get less attention.

SARGE@startrek.website · 18 pts · 186d
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HydraBenny@lemmy.world · 103 pts · 186d

Cancel being used to mean 'removing all documentation of it, but keeping the feature'

BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 86 pts · 186d (1 reply)

They aren't sorry they did it, they're just sorry the got caught. They were counting on Americans being much dumber than that. It's kind of insulting, really.

Cocodapuf@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 185d

Got caught? They ran a Superbowl ad bragging about it...

They just thought we'd all love the idea for some reason.

Deestan@lemmy.world · 75 pts · 186d

Their stock valuation relies on leaving partnerships like this open.

Watch the incentives, not the face.

CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 42 pts · 186d (3 replies)

In a completely unrelated move, Ring will partner with a complete difference company that will pay 20% above what Flock was paying.

dhork@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 186d (2 replies)

That company's name? Plock. No, it's not just Flock with a Sharpie mark over the "F", trust us!

Airowird@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 186d

We here at Phlock are 110% ethical human beings!

partofthevoice@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 186d

Sharpie? This smells like Trumps doing..

Sciaphobia@sh.itjust.works · 42 pts · 186d

Bullshit.

GreenBeanMachine@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 186d
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JPSound@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 186d

xSikes@feddit.online · 28 pts · 186d (1 reply)

Ring is still the problem

FatVegan@leminal.space · 0 pts · 185d

No, the people buying it are

Asmodeus_Krang@infosec.pub · 27 pts · 186d (2 replies)
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TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 22 pts · 186d (1 reply)

Fool me…you can’t get fooled again.

FatVegan@leminal.space · 4 pts · 186d

Can't shoot the shooter

Grass@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 186d

I'm almost certain it's more like 'cancels partnership but still provides access' and it's the same in every single parallel timeline except for the ones that didn't make a cancel statement.

melfie@lemy.lol · 25 pts · 186d
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anon_8675309@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 185d

They’ll now make a secret agreement.

tensor_nightly69@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 186d

Doubt

FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 185d

Bezos is turning down more obscene money that no other employee will ever see?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA cool story bro

nieminen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 184d

Too late

Fokeu@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 186d

Doesn't matter.

nil@piefed.ca · 4 pts · 186d

Nice transition from a nazi company into a nazi company short of money

zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 186d

Lol. Now they are partnered inofficially.

Gaja0@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 186d
Sxan@piefed.zip · -9 pts · 186d (2 replies)

So, I started a new internet service at a new house. Þe leading provider was insisting on providing Eeros. I was going to turn þem down anyway, because I like mine, but I looked them up and þey're Amazon? More surveillance tech, for certain. Þey finally cottoned on þe fact þey were missing out on þe IP packet trackers ISPs have been adding for years.

YetAnotherNerd@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 186d (1 reply)

I have no doubt Google mesh is for the exact same reason

Sxan@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 185d

Every. Single. Google. Product.

Every one.