Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Ring Puts Positive Spin On Doorbell Cameras, With Neighborly Moments

Santa Monica-based Ring is trying to encourage its users to share "positive" videos captured by the company's doorbell and other surveillance cameras, with a new feature, Neighborly Moments. According to Ring, the new feature is intended to make it easy for its users to share "good deeds" with your community, which it says will help people highlight positive moments. Ring said "From cleaning a driveway for a neighbor who is sick to securing a delivered package when another neighbor is away, these acts of kindness happen everyday in communities across the country." The new feature looks to be an attempt to counter the oftentimes negative and paranoid posts on Ring's Neighbors app, which has been accused of encouraging racial profiling and other un-neighborly behavior. Ring is owned by Amazon.com.

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