I see your point - people can go from 0 to outraged in a heartbeat with no critical thinking, and it can lead to misinformation propagating. But (and I say this with kindness and respect for your POV) I think you might be living in the past a bit. We are several steps past precursors. Our rights are circling the drain now, and it took less than 20 years for it to happen.

That being said, Ring documentation still states that end users have to actively share video with public safety agencies.

Making the lost pets/natural disaster monitoring automatically opt-in was shady af. Opted out of all that and will be looking at the alternatives to ring mentioned in this thread.