Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

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If you use Alexa, Echo, or any other Amazon device, you have only 10 days to opt out of an experiment that leaves your personal privacy and security hanging in the balance.

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Arse to that. Ive got 6 echo devices and im not sharing my bandwidth. Ive turned it off.

The neighbour opposite has my wifi key - and that i dont mind, but im not sharing it with the rest of the street!

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Thanks for the heads up. Just turned it off.

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Thanks for posting this @everhopeful I had no idea this was being rolled out and that it was defaulting to “enabled”

I just turned off Amazon sidewalk.

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BT (British Telecoms) uses everyones WiFi to create hotspots called FON that anyone with a BT account can log into

Find My on Apple devices uses all Apple devices to pin-point each other to locate where other peoples devices are. Apple say it’s a totally locked system - but I guess how much do you really trust that?

Just 2 examples I can think of similar things going on

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I have an Echo. What do I have to do or where do I have to call to turn this off? Does anybody know?

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Read the article. It has directions.

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I don’t have Alexa or Echo. Should I still be concerned about any of their other software?

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So far, only :

Amazon devices including Alexa, Echo, Ring, security cams, outdoor lights, motion sensors, and Tile trackers

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hmmm must not be rolling out over here. No sidewalk in my settings.

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I use an Amazon tablet, but I’ve disabled Alexa on it. I mean I haven’t even set up Alexa on it. Should I be okay?

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I’d go into the alexa app settings to make sure.

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I laugh at all of your first world problems! I don’t even own a phone. :wink:

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Thanks a million for the article.

This Skunk disabled Amazon Sidewalk.

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