Ring’s adorable surveillance hellscape
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.
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 …
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