Your car knows when you’re distracted, your phone knows where you are, your doorbell knows who visited your house and your smartwatch knows nearly everything about you, down to your heart rate. The biggest threat to privacy isn’t someone hacking into your phone; it’s the fact that we’ve willingly invited the stranger that is surveillance into every crevice of our lives. In 2018, Facebook became the center of one of the biggest privacy scandals in history when political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica had improperly obtained data from nearly 87 million Facebook users. Due to Facebook’s privacy policies, the quiz was able to collect data from the unconsenting Facebook friends of the participants. People bought Ring because they wanted surveillance, whether it was to watch their porch, deter thieves or feel safer.