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OAN Staff Katherine Mosack
8:10 AM – Saturday, February 14, 2026
Ring has announced it’s ending its partnership with Flock Safety, a tech surveillance company, not long after a controversial Super Bowl commercial triggered privacy concerns.
“Following a comprehensive review, we determined the planned Flock Safety integration would require significantly more time and resources than anticipated. As a result, we have made the joint decision to cancel the planned integration,” Ring said in a statement on Thursday. “The integration never launched, so no Ring customer videos were ever sent to Flock Safety.”
Flock also released a statement adding, “We believe this decision allows both companies to best serve their respective customers and communities. Flock remains dedicated to supporting law enforcement agencies with tools that are fully configurable to local laws and policies, and we continue to engage directly with public officials and community leaders.”
The partnership was announced in October 2025 to create a feature called Community Requests, which allows public safety agencies to publish requests for help from the public for tips about a criminal investigation, including relevant ring camera footage. In this case, the Ring camera owner would be able to opt in or out of sharing their video footage.
The questionable Ring ad boasted the company’s Search Party Feature, which utilizes AI to allow users to see feeds from other users’ cameras to search for certain visual elements.
The advertisement indicated that this feature would be useful in a scenario where a customer was searching for a lost dog. However, Super Bowl viewers raised questions about this tool potentially being used to track humans, as well.
“That Ring commercial really used dogs as a Trojan horse for an expanded police and surveillance state,” X user @SoulRevision told her 20,000 followers. “Even worse is that many will fall for it. Many more already have.”
Doorbell and front door surveillance footage had been used to solve several notable crimes in recent months. Last year, police used videos from a nearby neighborhood to identify a suspect in a shooting at Brown University. A statement from Ring referenced this instance.
“When a shooting occurred near Brown University in December 2025, every second mattered. The Providence Police Department turned to their community for help, putting out a Community Request. Within hours, 7 neighbors responded, sharing 168 videos that captured critical moments from the incident,” Ring stated. “One video identified a new key witness, helping lead police to identify the suspect’s vehicle and solve the case. With a shooter at large, the community faced uncertainty about their safety. Neighbors who chose to share footage played a crucial role in neutralizing the threat and restoring safety to their community.”
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) also released video footage from a Nest doorbell camera that showed a masked person of interest in the case of the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie, the mother of “Today” show host Savannah Guthrie.
Activists have been calling for Ring to break off its relationship with Flock since before the Super Bowl over concerns that Flock’s network is available to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A protest outside of Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle was planned for Friday to call on Ring to cut ties with Flock, ICE and Customs and Border Protection (CBP).
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