Here's how to disable Ring's creepy Search Party feature

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Valve's Steam Machine: Everything we know Say goodbye to AI-assisted mass surveillance for now. Ring aired a Super Bowl ad touting its that didn't quite get the intended buzz. Instead, the commercial scared the pants off of anyone . The feature is advertised as a way to reunite missing dogs with their owners, a noble cause indeed, but Search Party does this by turning individual Ring devices into a surveillance network. Each camera uses AI to identify pets running across its field of vision and all feeds are pooled together to potentially identify lost animals.