PSA: Disable Amazon Sidewalk by June 8th so your Internet connection isn't shared by neighbors $1

So just curious - Apple gets to use it's "network" of iphones and devices for Apple Tags and everyone thinks it's genius and fine. But anyone else who tries to put up a competing network does the same is "invasion of privacy"?

Or maybe I'm writing to a different demographic of SDers.

You missed the part where it's Amazon and they don't give a frack about your privacy. In fact. All their ring devices work alongside local police. They can tap in and see anyone's ring camera whenever they want.

You missed the part where it's Amazon and they don't give a frack about your privacy. In fact. All their ring devices work alongside local police. They can tap in and see anyone's ring camera whenever they want.

500MB isn't exactly a lot of data, especially given that most of it's just communication between IoT devices.

Where are your evidences? Or did you hear that on Fox News?

Straight from Apple "We believe that law enforcement agencies play a critical role in keeping our society safe and we've always maintained that if we have information we will make it available when presented with valid legal process." https://www.apple.com/privacy/gov...-requests/ [apple.com]

You should really take the time to read about what it is and it's benefits. It used LoRa and low energy Bluetooth to devices only approved by Amazon.

Some use cases could be a dog collar with LoRa to find a lost dog.

June 8th is the last day to op out. OP please put this in your title.

But still a far cry from "very little", and data is data in this regard. Just imagine, 500 from you, 500 from me, 500 from Fred, 500 from Mike....and if you're unlucky enough to not have an option for fiber, but just shitty broadband that shares the load in the neighborhood, that potential 500M from each house on your street adds up. Did you happen to catch all of the bottlenecks from people working from home once covid kicked in? In fact, that's pretty greedy of Amazon to have the cap that high on something they had the balls to opt you into really without permission (unless you're one that spends your weekends reading fine prints). This shit isn't free and it's clearly saving shitazon millions in the long run otherwise they wouldn't bother doing it. Which brings me back to my original points. Shitazon is one of the biggest companies in the world and is one of the biggest offenders of corporate greed...they can pay me or or lower my prime membership fees, or remove their shitty adds from my display devices. The fact that they think they can milk the benefits for their company from me for free...this sidewalk BS will benefit me in 0 ways. I don't need the "benefit" of tracking any of this crap and taxing an infrastructure that is overloaded in the first place. Yes, overloaded...until my ISP can give me the "up to" 100M speeds that I'm paying for consistently, it's saturated.

You do your internet how you want. But don't tell me what is acceptable or not with my dime. It's a matter of principle.

This is a good thing. Stupid news trying to make an issue of it. A mesh network is amazing.

Any idiot who buys one of those google or alexa things deserve to lose their privacy.

But still a far cry from "very little", and data is data in this regard. Just imagine, 500 from you, 500 from me, 500 from Fred, 500 from Mike....and if you're unlucky enough to not have an option for fiber, but just shitty broadband that shares the load in the neighborhood, that potential 500M from each house on your street adds up. Did you happen to catch all of the bottlenecks from people working from home once covid kicked in? In fact, that's pretty greedy of Amazon to have the cap that high on something they had the balls to opt you into really without permission (unless you're one that spends your weekends reading fine prints). This shit isn't free and it's clearly saving shitazon millions in the long run otherwise they wouldn't bother doing it. Which brings me back to my original points. Shitazon is one of the biggest companies in the world and is one of the biggest offenders of corporate greed...they can pay me or or lower my prime membership fees, or remove their shitty adds from my display devices. The fact that they think they can milk the benefits for their company from me for free...this sidewalk BS will benefit me in 0 ways. I don't need the "benefit" of tracking any of this crap and taxing an infrastructure that is overloaded in the first place. Yes, overloaded...until my ISP can give me the "up to" 100M speeds that I'm paying for consistently, it's saturated.

You do your internet how you want. But don't tell me what is acceptable or not with my dime. It's a matter of principle.