Tag: Amazon Ring

Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 4, 2020

Featured: Privacy News Online – Week of December 4th, 2020 Amazon’s Ring moves even closer to becoming the perfect urban police surveillance system The increased prevalence of Amazon’s Ring internet connected doorbell has privacy experts worried about surveillance implications. Researchers even found that the Amazon Ring app gathers personal information on the user and sends … Continue reading “Privacy News Online | Weekly Review: December 4, 2020”

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Amazon Sidewalk shares your home WiFi network with other Amazon devices unless you opt out

The Amazon Sidewalk program has officially launched in the United States: and it’s opt-out. Amazon Sidewalk turns your home’s Amazon Alexa device into a bridge device – a router that takes a chunk of your home’s WiFi bandwidth and gives it to neighboring “Sidewalk-enabled” devices such as the Amazon Echo and Amazon Ring devices. As … Continue reading “Amazon Sidewalk shares your home WiFi network with other Amazon devices unless you opt out”

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