Amazon US Customers Given One Week To Opt Out Of Mass Wireless Sharing (Echo and Ring)

businessnewsindex ^ | On Jun 1, 2021

[Pikachu_Dad]

Until they send you an update that silently renewable it.

[americas.best.days...]

I disabled Alexa on this most recent Kindle. Is the only way to disable sidewalk thru Alexa?

[Noumenon]

What could possibly go wrong?

[Rio]

Maybe have to wait for the week to end?

[unread]

"Live rural, live free—it is getting kinda obvious why they tried to herd us into cities."

No kidding... Property has become very hard to come by here in Southern Ohio.. Nearly Everything sells within a matter days..

A friend of mine was selling his house on his own for 170.. A Realtor call him and told him he was crazy and listed it for him @ 225.. He ended up selling it for 235... And that all happened in a matter of something like three weeks..!!!

At this point in time it seem people are desperate to get out of the big cities...

[mikelets456]

My guess is it’s in their BS user agreement.

[Jane Long]

Amazon is not the first company to look to create such a network. Apple has taken a similar approach with the company’s range of AirTag item trackers, which can connect to the internet through any compatible iPhone they come into contact with, not simply their owner’s.

Wait. What?

[Carriage Hill]

None of that crap’s ever been in my condo. Everyone else around the 40 unit complex seems to have it.

[kalee]

Ping

[Irish Eyes]

bookmark

[Irenic]

Chevy and Ford are going to loan out your cars when they’re not in use.

Elon just wants to watch you.

[DouglasKC]

Amazon is not the first company to look to create such a network. Apple has taken a similar approach with the company’s range of AirTag item trackers, which can connect to the internet through any compatible iPhone they come into contact with, not simply their owner’s. Wait. What?

Xfinity has been doing it for quite a while on their routers as well. If you rent one from them it automatically sets up a hot spot that others can use. Wall to wall internet. It's why I bought my own cable modem/router.

[Jane Long]

Good thing we don’t have Xfinity. 😱

[Jane Long]

😂

[usconservative]

Amazon announced this a few months ago and I made sure the GF and I were both opted out then. Looks like I’m going to have to check and make sure that’s still true.

[Lazamataz]

Yabut does it really turn it off?

[usconservative]

Yep, still Disabled. No “Amazon Sidewalk” b.s. here!

[Lockbox]

I have Blink and Ring. Called Blink to opt out and they did not know what I was discussing. Called Amazon and spoke with someone in the sidewalk group. He said Alexa or Echo are needed for the Blink or Ring to use Sidewalk. I also told him this was handled badly and to enroll users by not opting out with in ten days was an issue. I plan to call Ring to discuss. If I find out differs then above I will let you know.

[usconservative]

Yes. I disabled it a few months ago and it’s still disabled. I just set a calendar reminder to myself to check again in a week.

[PapaBear3625]

Apple has taken a similar approach with the company’s range of AirTag item trackers, which can connect to the internet through any compatible iPhone they come into contact with, not simply their owner’s.

You can have all the long passwords, two-factor authentication, and other doo-dads you want, and it won't mean a thing if the iPhone operating system itself decides that certain "privileged" applications have the right to bypass it all.