Have an Echo device? Amazon may help itself to your Wi-Fi

There are a load of really good reasons to implement permissive WiFi protocols universally, allowing a proportion of everyone's WiFi to be interactively accessible, in a sandboxed environment. This would start with public service issues like emergency alarms, IoT environmental sensors and the like, and could permit private services to apply for access.

Users would retain control with simple up-front options built into operating systems.

It would be one component option in the array of distributed and peer to peer networking technologies that can initiate a new wave of services, from WiFi based distributed networking to walkie talkie apps.

Not sure this is the best way to roll it out.

There’s always someone who tries to game the system and ends up ruining it for everyone. I don’t believe this case will be any different.

Worth mentioning that this is USA only at the moment.

This would make the Ministerium fur Staatssicherheit, (Stasi) proud. Great job Amerika

What i learnt from IT networks and connected devices : do not let the magic happens !

Configure things yourself ! You'll learn a lot of things and know your network.

Obviously that would require configurable and/or open source devices not all-in-one, cloud based, "back boxes".

Progressively your privacy is stolen and monetised for someone else’s benefit. Hackers delight or what.

Most examples of the”interconnectedness of things” are just an excuse to sell you things you don’t want and don’t need but are conned by advertising in to thinking you can’t do without.

In my home all of those IoT devices have only access to the internet, not to my private network. I have Echo at home and there is no (yet) option for sidewalk.

DID AMAZON TELL CUSTOMERS THIS WAS HAPPENING?

Amazon says it sent emails to customers last month and in November that Sidewalk was coming.

So no, they didn't.

How did you arrive at the conclusion that they didn't tell their customers that this was happening after reading that they told their customers that this was happening?

And you think your iphone isn't listening on you ????

So why has the battery drain increased over the years ?

@mmwkdw

I used a program a couple of weeks ago that is being test to see "who" is connected to your smartphone. I installed all the popular apps..FB, Insta, YT,etc. Guess what I found? They all had access to the microphone/camera, and people were listening! Ths was previous to apples new privacy update. After the update and all the settings changed, there was zero activity being monitored.

So @OlympicSupport - you havent answered my Battery drain aspect of my statement...

And, there's also "Official" access, and unofficial access... to be taken into account.