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Amazon’s Ring wanted to track your pets. It revealed the future of surveillance

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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (96th percentile)
  • Above-average Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (54th percentile)

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Article details
Title
Amazon’s Ring wanted to track your pets. It revealed the future of surveillance
Published by
The Conversation, February 2026
DOI 10.64628/aa.c5kdat55f
Authors

Dennis B. Desmond

Abstract

Private companies selling ‘intelligence as a service’ are changing the face of intelligence and how private and personal data is used.

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Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 40. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 July 2026.
All research outputs
#1,301,060
of 34,560,275 outputs
Outputs from The Conversation
#129,220
of 213,882 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#14,269
of 358,295 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The Conversation
#2,285
of 5,054 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 34,560,275 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 96th percentile: it's in the top 5% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 213,882 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 98.8. This one is in the 39th percentile – i.e., 39% of its peers scored the same or lower than it.
Older research outputs will score higher simply because they've had more time to accumulate mentions. To account for age we can compare this Altmetric Attention Score to the 358,295 tracked outputs that were published within six weeks on either side of this one in any source. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 96% of its contemporaries.
We're also able to compare this research output to 5,054 others from the same source and published within six weeks on either side of this one. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 54% of its contemporaries.