Ever since my neighbor put a ring doorbell on the outside of her door in the hallway of my building, I have started to notice them everywhere, often peeking out of windows onto the street, or right at eye level when you go to knock on a door. My partner has a ring camera across the way from them, pointing directly at their door, recording them every time they enter and exit their home. I have tried to understand this growing need to arm your home with such pervasive equipment. The neoliberal hyper-individualistic aspects of the society we live in seems to push us further and further from trusting one another, especially our neighbors- those who we most likely share an incredibly common day to day experience with. Ring cameras feel like virtual colonization to me. They put you under direct surveillance and colonize space. Especially when it is not just the individual neighbor who owns the video from the ring camera. It was announced in November 2022 that the NYPD would join Ring Neighbors, a site that allows Amazon Ring Doorbell users to post their camera footage. Amazon also reports to the NYPD where ring doorbells are located across the city. Ring cameras record conversations, have an incredibly wide and expansive lens and record data that, when accessed by the NYPD, can be run through facial recognition technologies.These are powerful surveillance tools and the saddest part about them is that they are being wielded by our neighbors.