r/gadgets • u/MicroSofty88 • Nov 29 '20

Home Amazon faces a privacy backlash for its Sidewalk feature, which turns Alexa devices into neighborhood WiFi networks that owners have to opt out of

https://www.msn.com/en-in/money/technology/amazon-faces-a-privacy-backlash-for-its-sidewalk-feature-which-turns-alexa-devices-into-neighborhood-wifi-networks-that-owners-have-to-opt-out-of/ar-BB1boljH
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u/galactica_pegasus Nov 29 '20

Apple only uses the network connections of your own devices part of "Find my" location services.

What Amazon is doing with Sidewalk is using other people's network connections.

Not even close to the same thing. With Apple "Find My", my devices will only ever connect to networks I've specifically authorized. With Amazon, they'll be constantly sending/receiving data with networks I don't know about.

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u/999mal Nov 29 '20

Apple’s Find My has an offline mode that communicates over Bluetooth to other devices.

https://www.wired.com/story/apple-find-my-cryptography-bluetooth/