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What's Creepy, What’s Not?

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Welcome to *Privacy Not Included's new monthly round-up of consumer tech news you can use to shop smart for connected gadgets and apps. We hope you enjoy it!

What’s Creepy?

Amazon Devices Will Soon Share Your Internet

June 8th! That's the day Amazon begins automatically opting in users of Alexa, Echo, Ring security cams, and Tile devices into a program called Amazon Sidewalk. Amazon Sidewalk is basically a giant shared wireless network. That means Amazon will take a little of your wireless bandwidth and share that into a bigger pool of bandwidth so you, your neighbors, or people passing by can access the internet through this crowdsourced network. If that sounds kinda creepy, that's because it potentially is. Especially because Amazon does that thing we HATE — they opt you in, rather than asking your permission to opt in. So, maybe take a few minutes to go opt out.

How to Opt Out of Amazon Sidewalk

Open your Alexa app (if you have a Ring, but not an Alexa, go to your Ring Control Center in the app to opt-out).

Open More. Open Settings.

Select Account Settings.

Select Amazon Sidewalk.

Turn Amazon Sidewalk to OFF.