Friend,

Ring Nation is still set to air next Monday, September 26, courtesy of Amazon-owned MGM Studios. Putting Wanda Sykes in front of Ring’s history of privacy violations and racism is not going to be enough to convince people to tune in. Sign our petition to cancel Ring Nation NOW.
 

We’ve talked about how the police can have warrantless, non-consensual access to footage on a Ring camera, but what about the everyday person? The Neighbors feature also empowers people to self-police their neighborhood, escalating reports of “suspicious people'' based on prejudice and personal bias. This amplifies racial profiling and further subjects communities of color to racist policing and criminalization. In a post-Roe era, the Ring surveillance ecosystem is perfectly positioned to track abortion seekers, capturing anyone’s conversations within a 25 feet radius of a Ring camera and can record footage of a health clinic across the street. 
 

This show is a thinly veiled ad that makes Amazon’s dangerous surveillance tech seem helpful and fun while obscuring the fact that Amazon Web Services, Ring & other surveillance tech profit off the harm and exploitation of our people.

Tell MGM to cancel Ring Nation immediately.

In Solidarity,
Myaishia Hayes
Campaign Strategies Director, MediaJustice


P.S. Check out these articles in Vice, The Verge, Report Door and PetaPixel about the call to action, as well as our sign-on letter to MGM.