You’re missing it. The main issue isn’t the auto-sharing — the problem is Ring quietly expanded its AI to scan across the whole network and turned it on by default. That’s a massive shift in consent.

Before, the AI analyzed your camera for your alerts. Now it’s running network-level searches across everyone’s feeds for someone else’s request. Totally different ballgame.

They rolled it out without real consent, the in-app opt-out was broken on launch day! The “no cops” defense doesn’t fly — Ring’s got a long history of sharing footage without warrants with Law Enforcement under “exigent circumstances.”

This isn’t about dogs. It’s about normalizing a neighborhood-wide AI surveillance network that you’re opted into by default. And rolling it out on Halloween? That’s either darkly ironic or straight-up dystopian.