What on earth were Ring and Amazon thinking when they aired their Super Bowl advert that previewed a “there’s nowhere you can hide” type of dystopian future masked as a way to find your lost dog? With cameras everywhere, are we safer or just more exposed? When camera data is deleted, is it really gone (spoiler alert: not necessarily), and more. Are we approaching the new location of the “creepy line” or as a society are we content to trade privacy for security? And what happens when the glasses with cameras become more pervasive? Are we all on cam all the time whether we like it or not?

Show notes:

Ring Super Bowl Advert - https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/business/ring-super-bowl-ad-privacy.html
Decoder Podcast - Let’s talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state - https://youtu.be/QQjW68B7s8g
Ring and Flock cancel partnership - https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/13/amazons-ring-cancels-partnership-with-flock-a-network-of-ai-cameras-used-by-ice-feds-and-police/
Savanna Guthrie Nest Video Retrieval - https://www.theverge.com/tech/877235/nancy-guthrie-google-nest-cam-video-storage
Apple San Bernardino Matter - https://epic.org/documents/apple-v-fbi-2/
DJI robot vacuum cameras accessible via Internet - https://www.theverge.com/tech/879088/dji-romo-hack-vulnerability-remote-control-camera-access-mqtt
Unifi protect cameras - https://geni.us/isNyY2
Zuck in court to testify on social media addiction - https://apnews.com/article/mark-zuckerberg-trial-testimony-instagram-c8cbaa32ccbf4933ec3a7beebd6cf34b
Glassholes are back - and forbidden in court - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/meta-trial-mark-zuckerberg-ai-glasses/
Movie recommendation - Happy Gilmore - https://geni.us/v96XEgb
Meta/Facebook studies on addictiveness of social media - https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/23/tech/facebook-researchers-study-addictive-features
LinkedIn/Microsoft Verification data being shared with many others, including Persona -= https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

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