[shagie]

Various use case stories...

You've got an Alexa, your neighbor has a Ring. The network goes out on your neighbor's house. The Ring can then use your Alexa provided sidewalk network to send a notification to your neighbor about a package or whatever.

Someone makes Tile like product that can use Sidewalk to track its location. The sidewalk extends its range and accuracy.

Right now, it really appears to be just Ring devices that can make use of it.

This isn't a guest Wifi that arbitrary people can connect to... though as we saw with the Apple tags, people have quickly piggybacked other data on it.

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While I don't have any devices that extend the Sidewalk network, I've disabled it... just in case I do get one.

[bitL]

How do you know you really disabled it? What if it does the same as Google that was recording location data and then uploaded them right after you established a WiFi connection? What if Amazon devices would do that a few times a day without you noticing, and the "disable Sidewalk" button would just mean "do it less frequently"?

[shagie]

I don't. But all of those questions tart out with "what if" and presuppose deception on Amazon's part.

Amazon's business model isn't "sell your info" - its "sell you stuff."

The intentional deception would get them in much deeper trouble to the point that your "what ifs" would be something a company lawyer would stop rather quickly.