Nathan R. Jessep
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This is crazy. A link in a daily news email caught my eye. This was the first I had heard of this.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/06/01/amazon-sidewalk-echo-devices-share-internet-june-8/5288353001/
tl;dr
If you have one of the eligible devices, AND DO NOT OPT OUT, your device will join the "Sidewalk" program, using Bluetooth and the 900MHz and other frequency spectrums to interlink devices so that they are always connected
WHAT COULD GO WRONG!?
I'm usually all for new technology and trying things out, but I think this one's gonna be a no for me dawg.
How to opt out of (or into) Amazon’s Sidewalk network
another link gianmarco provided with more info on how it works and what it does: https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/amazon-sidewalk-will-create-entire-smart-neighborhoods-faq-ble-900-mhz/
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/06/01/amazon-sidewalk-echo-devices-share-internet-june-8/5288353001/
tl;dr
If you have one of the eligible devices, AND DO NOT OPT OUT, your device will join the "Sidewalk" program, using Bluetooth and the 900MHz and other frequency spectrums to interlink devices so that they are always connected
WHAT COULD GO WRONG!?
I'm usually all for new technology and trying things out, but I think this one's gonna be a no for me dawg.
How to opt out of (or into) Amazon’s Sidewalk network
Amazon says that Sidewalk will get switched on this coming June 8th (Tile functionality will be enabled June 14th), and that it plans to automatically opt in all the eligible devices. The company’s published list of devices includes: Ring Floodlight Cam (2019), Ring Spotlight Cam Wired (2019), Ring Spotlight Cam Mount (2019), Echo (third gen and newer), Echo Dot (third gen and newer), Echo Dot for Kids (third gen and newer), Echo Dot with Clock (third gen and newer), Echo Plus (all generations), Echo Show (all models and generations), Echo Spot, Echo Studio, Echo Input, Echo Flex.
another link gianmarco provided with more info on how it works and what it does: https://www.cnet.com/home/smart-home/amazon-sidewalk-will-create-entire-smart-neighborhoods-faq-ble-900-mhz/
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