Ring aired a Super Bowl ad announcing this which didn’t quite get the intended buzz. However, the commercial scared of pants nor anyone else .

The feature was advertised as a way to reunite lost dogs with their owners, a noble cause, but Search Party did it by turning individual Ring devices into a monitoring network. Each camera uses AI to detect pets running across its field of vision and all feeds are aggregated to identify missing animals. I’ve never seen a slope so slippery, as technology can easily be rejiggered to track people down.

It’s also worth noting that this isn’t a new feature. The Search Party used to be . During that time it was used to find 99 lost dogs in 90 days of use, according to Amazon CEO Andy Jassy. Approximately ten million pets are lost in America each year. Many people don’t want to help create a surveillance state for a tool that has what looks like a 0.005 percent success rate. That percentage is sure to increase with mass adoption, but you get the jist.

With that said, many Ring users are looking for a way to disable the feature, as it is enabled by default. Engadget has you covered.

How to Disable Search Party

Fortunately, this is easy to do. Just open the Ring app and tap the menu in the top left corner. Next, select Control Center. Then, tap Search Party and toggle the settings to Disable for Search for Lost Pets and Natural Hazards. Repeat this process for each camera.

There is also some confusion as to what the Ring is . If you want to go one step further, remove all your saved videos by tapping the History icon and then “Delete All.”