Turning off Search Party is straightforward enough: From the Ring app on your phone, tap the menu button (top left), then ...

But to get full functionality from Ring products, including its video doorbells, you need to pay a monthly or annual subscription. Called Ring Protect, the service is required if you want to save ...

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Amazon and Ring market their cameras as simple tools for safer homes, but recent findings from regulators and privacy advocates tell a more complicated story. The Federal Trade Commission has already ...

Jamie Siminoff is the founder of Ring, the smart doorbell and camera company. He left in 2023 but has now returned with possibly the most meaningful update the company has delivered, called Search ...

Your home may be your castle, but security measures like building a moat around your house and filling it with alligators are out of the question these days — both because it would cost too much money ...

On Sept. 30, Amazon announced new Ring security cameras and AI features at an event in New York City. Now, the Electronic Frontier Foundation says that one of those AI features, a tool called Familiar ...

Ring was the subject of significant backlash earlier this month, after a poorly received Super Bowl ad drew attention to its surveillance cameras' AI-powered Search Party feature. Though advertised as ...

In October 2025, the doorbell camera company Ring and security technology company Flock announced a partnership to integrate Ring's community requests feature, which allows local law enforcement ...