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Amazon's home surveillance company Ring is using video captured by its doorbell cameras in Facebook advertisements that ask users to identify and call the cops on a woman whom local police say is a suspected thief. In the video, the woman’s face is clearly visible and there is no obvious criminal activity taking place. The Facebook post shows her passing between two cars. She pulls the door handle of one of the cars, but it is locked. The video freezes on a still of the woman’s face from two different angles: “If you recognize this woman, please contact the Mountain View Police Department … please share with your neighbors,” text superimposed on the video says. In a post alongside the video, Ring urges residents of Mountain View, California to contact the police department if they recognize her. Hmmm. I guess that's not so much "inadvertent influencer" as it is "protagonist in a Philip K. Dick novel. " A private company, "shooting" footage using consumer products, is pitching Ring to your friends and neighbors with possibly one of your friends and neighbors. FIRST ONE TO CALL THE COPS WINS.