{"id":992008,"date":"2026-02-14T09:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T03:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=992008"},"modified":"2026-02-14T09:36:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T04:06:34","slug":"amazon-scraps-partnership-with-surveillance-company-after-super-bowl-ad-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/14\/amazon-scraps-partnership-with-surveillance-company-after-super-bowl-ad-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon scraps partnership with surveillance company after Super Bowl ad backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s smart doorbell maker Ring has terminated a partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety. <\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows a backlash that erupted after 30-second Ring ad that aired during the Super Bowl featuring a lost dog that is found through a network of cameras, sparking fears of a dystopian surveillance society. <\/p>\n<p>But that feature, called Search Party, was not related to Flock. And Ring&#8217;s announcement doesn&#8217;t cite the ad as a reason for the &#8220;joint decision&#8221; for the cancellation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon&#8217;s smart doorbell maker Ring has terminated a partnership with police surveillance tech company Flock Safety. The announcement follows a backlash that erupted after 30-second Ring ad that aired during the Super Bowl featuring a lost dog that is found through a network of cameras, sparking fears of a dystopian surveillance society. But that feature, called Search Party, was not related to Flock. And Ring&#8217;s announcement doesn&#8217;t cite the ad as a reason for the &#8220;joint decision&#8221; for the cancellation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=992008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}