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Many homes around the country feature Ring cameras at their front doors and on other spots around the outside of the home. New Ring doorbell cameras will now come equipped with a new feature called ‘Search Party’ that will help pet owners find their lost pets through volunteer videos from other Ring users in their area. Rich DeMuro, host of ‘Rich on Tech,’ spoke to Mendte in the Morning about the feature and how it works.
“If someone loses their dog, they can report that in the Ring app, upload a picture of their pet, [and] the nearby cameras will use AI to scan their footage to look for that pet,” DeMuro told host Larry Mendte. “It will alert the camera owner and that camera owner can then say do I want to help out in this search party or not.”
DeMuro did specify that it is not necessary to partake and give up the videos that your camera captures: “There are some privacy concerns of course because AI is looking through your footage so you can turn this feature off if you want in the Ring app.”
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