Nilay Patel

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Today, let's talk about the camera company Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state.

Hello, and welcome to Decoder.

I'm Nilay Patel, editor-in-chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems.

You probably saw this ad during the Super Bowl a couple weekends ago.

Since it aired for a massive audience at the Super Bowl, Ring's search party commercial has become a lightning rod for controversy.

It's easy to see how the same technology that can be used to find lost dogs can also be used to find people, and then used to invade our privacy in all kinds of uncomfortable ways, by cops and regular people alike.