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Have an Echo device? Amazon may help itself to your Wi-Fi The Associated Press David Limp, senior vice president of Devices and Services at Amazon, displays a new Echo, left, and an Echo Plus during an event announcing several new Amazon products by the company, Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2017, in Seattle. On Tuesday, June 8, 2021 Amazon launched a program that forces users of many Echo smart speakers and Ring security cameras to automatically share a small portion of their wireless bandwidth with ne...

Amazon will connect your Alexa devices with those of your neighbors to improve WiFi strength. Here's how to disable it.

Amazon Sidewalk goes live on June 8, 2021.

Echo and Ring users have just under a week to disable the new Amazon Sidewalk shared network feature.

On June 8, Amazon’s pulling all its devices into a device-to-device wireless mix, inspiring FUD along the way. Now's the time to opt out if you're be-FUDdled.

Sidewalk, Amazon’s new connection bridge between its devices, will get automatically switched on this coming June 8th. It’s actually pretty easy to opt out — we tell you how.

The Sidewalk network shares "a small portion of your internet bandwidth which is pooled together to provide these services to you and your neighbors," according to a description on Amazons website.