Orwell at your doorbell: Amazon Ring captures private moments and controls what the public is told

Ring Inc. touts its technology for helping to solve crimes, but the company owned by Amazon is raising alarm among privacy advocates who warn it has created a nationwide surveillance network. —Amazon/TNS

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida: When a man from West Boca, Florida, was in California on business, all he could do about the man at his door with a rifle was watch in fear, knowing his family was inside the house.

The intruder was shown on the man's cellphone app, recorded by his Ring doorbell camera nearly 3,000 miles away.