Amazon's Ring cancels its partnership with Flock that would have let law enforcement agencies request footage from Ring doorbell users, following backlash

Amazon's Ring has canceled its partnership with Flock Safety, a police tech provider, following backlash over a Super Bowl ad for a feature that uses AI to locate lost pets. The Electronic Frontier Foundation criticized the feature as a 'surveillance nightmare.' Flock operates a network of automated license plate readers and sells access to its software to law enforcement agencies, including ICE and CBP. Ring's decision to cancel the partnership comes amid growing pressure on tech companies to reexamine their work with federal agencies.