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Actually, I was going to say that you don't have a right to privacy while putting yourself in the view of others. Your neighbors' Ring cameras can only see what is visible from their property, which they have every right to see.
The relevant point is more that reducing the number of data points available to aggregators has a potentially large impact because it reduces the degrees of freedom available for statistical inference.
The direct effect of that is less confidence in the inferences made about you. The indirect knock-on effect is that, because the information about you is less reliable, the other data about you becomes less profitable and less of it will be collected.
Every step of the data collection and analysis process carries a cost. So raising those costs or reducing the benefits will lead to more privacy.
It is very messy. For instance, cell phone location data -- I'm not the best at the technical side, but I think there is not any cell phone service that offers connection without it creating something that could be used to track the location of the phone. They can claim they delete it, but this is futile in my mind. It's hard to imagine any major carrier not recognizing that such location data is valuable. Is the best the market can do is incentivize a company that says "we won't sell this data"?
In the case of something like flock cameras, city's seem to have an incentive to put them up. If that's not a good example, Ring cameras might be: each user wants to use them for their own personal use, but the incentives might be such that Ring offers a discount if you let them sell aggregate data to police departments (or even whoever wants it). Will the market produce a privacy preserving option?
Evidence seems to be that majority don't value privacy highly. If I opt out of the Ring network and pay extra for a closed circuit home camera, but all my neighbors go for the cheap "sell me out to the cops" Ring network, the market doesn't seem to be able to offer me a solution.
I can hear you saying: the market offers you a hone in a rural area...