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Ring

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40 articles accelerating

Ring has appeared in 40 articles since 2016-03. Coverage peaked in 2025Q4 with 2 articles. Frequently mentioned alongside Amazon, Alfred, Jamie Siminoff, Alexa.

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40
mentions
Velocity
+100.0%
growth rate
Acceleration
+1.000
velocity change
Sources
18
publications
The Window
Three surveillance stories on the same day. Two expanded quietly. One died publicly. The difference was visibility.

Coverage Timeline

2020-04-22
Ars Technica

Leaked screenshots of a Ring survey show Amazon is gauging interest in adding facial recognition and license plate detection tools

Amazon wouldn't be the first consumer company to do it, but it would be the biggest.  —  Amazon subsidiary Ring, which has partnerships … Tweets: @bradmccarty and @angelsdiaz_ Tweets: Brad McCarty / @...

2019-07-31
Gizmodo

Documents show that Amazon's Ring vets and authors public statements about Ring attributed to police and delays announcing partnerships with police departments

Amazon's home security company Ring has garnered enormous control over the ways in which its law enforcement partners are allowed … Tweets: @dellcam , @dellcam , @ericgeller , @dellcam , @snowjake , @...

2019-07-26
VICE 3 related

FOIA docs show Ring required Lakeland, FL, police to advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free products and a portal for requesting footage

though I imagine the PDs see the whole program as a win. Public agencies shouldn't be (1) keeping agreements like this confidential and (2) giving a private company veto over any public discussions ab...

2019-02-10
Motherboard

Amazon's home security company Ring runs a crime reporting social network called Neighbors where petty crimes are heavily policed and racism is common

Caroline Haskins / Motherboard : Tweets: @carolineha_ and @vice Tweets: Caroline Haskins / @carolineha_ : I opened this article talking about a post titled “MY PACKAGE THIEF HAS BEEN ARRESTED!!!” Her...

2019-02-09
Motherboard

Amazon's home security company Ring runs a crime reporting social network called Neighbors where petty crimes are heavily policed and racism is common

Caroline Haskins / Motherboard : Tweets: @vice Tweets: @vice : Neighbors, a social media crime-reporting app owned by Amazon, creates a digital ecosystem in which you are encouraged to assume the wor...

2019-01-11
The Intercept 20 related

Sources: Amazon-owned Ring gave its teams in Ukraine and the US unfiltered cloud access to unencrypted home security camera videos and live feeds

Sam Biddle / The Intercept :

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Quarterly Coverage

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Narrative

Ring has appeared in 189 Techmeme articles since January 2015. The biggest stories include Amazon announces a new line of Alexa-enabled wearables equipped with mics and speakers,... and Amazon acquires Ring, maker of video doorbells and other smart home devices; reports put.... Frequently covered alongside Amazon, Oura, Alexa, Samsung, and Google. Coverage has shifted toward funding, safety themes and away from consumer, enterprise.

Key Moments

2024Q2enterprise -7pts; developer -7pts; consumer -50pts
2024Q3enterprise +33pts; consumer +33pts; funding -100pts
2024Q4consumer -11pts; funding +22pts; competition +11pts

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