Amazon’s Ring cancels controversial partnership with tech company Flock amid privacy concerns

CNN • February 13, 2026 • business

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Ring has canceled its planned partnership with Flock Safety following backlash over privacy concerns and a controversial Super Bowl commercial promoting a lost-pet feature linked to surveillance fears.
The integration would have allowed law enforcement to request video footage from Ring users via Flock's license plate reading technology, but Ring cited resource demands as a reason for cancellation.
Ring and Flock both deny any relationship with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and state that federal agencies cannot access their systems or data, despite reports of local police using Flock's technology in immigration-related investigations.
Ring’s Community Requests feature remains operational but only allows local law enforcement to request footage, with users having the option to ignore requests or disable the feature entirely.
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