Amazon's new feature will share your internet connection with neighbors (but you can opt out)
Unless you opt-out of Amazon Sidewalk - you’re going to start sharing your internet with your neighbors on June 8 on select Amazon devices.
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Unless you opt-out of Amazon Sidewalk - you’re going to start sharing your internet with your neighbors on June 8 on select Amazon devices.
Amazon Sidewalk is only giving you another week before you opt-out. Here are the steps that you should follow to disable the mesh network service.
Amazon Alexa devices will soon connect to all available Wi-Fi access points in your neighborhood to create a “shared network.” That means any Echo or Ring doorbell cameras will connect to a nearby Alexa device. Amazon has launched a feature to connect your Alexa Echo Dot and Ring doorbell to your neighbors’ Wi-Fi and have […]
Unless you specifically tell it not to, Amazon will automatically enroll you in Sidewalk, which—it’s easy to imagine—could lead to some potentially unwanted privacy and security issues down the road.
Amazon Sidewalk goes live on June 8, 2021.