Let's talk about Ring, lost dogs, and the surveillance state

Hogging seats on a crowded train, not saying excuse me, watching videos on your phone with no headphones in. Sometimes it feels like we don't know how to act anymore. What we have been seeing, increasingly, is people breaking rules. Why should I play by the rules if nobody else is going to do that for me? This week on Explain It to Me, how to mind your manners.

New episodes Sundays wherever you get your podcasts. Today, let's talk about the camera company Ring, Lost Dogs, and the surveillance state. Hello and welcome to Decoder. I'm Neilai Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas and other problems. You probably saw this ad during the Super Bowl a couple weekends ago.

This is Milo Petzer family. But every year, 10 million go missing. And the way we look for them hasn't changed in years. Until now. One post of a dog's photo in the Ring app starts outdoor cameras looking for a match.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (24 minutes, 5,424 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 10 episodes for $5, and monthly plans are cheaper still.