What are the privacy concerns with Amazon Sidewalk?

Technology & Data
Written By Klemchuk LLP

Congress Amazon’s new offering of the Amazon Sidewalk, is raising new privacy concerns because it:

  • can connect to other available Wi-Fi networks that are not necessarily the same network as the owner of the Amazon Sidewalk;

  • has the potential to access sensitive data on the aforementioned networks and make them available without explicit consent; and

  • has its default setting set to automatically opt-in to these features, making it possible for many owners (and neighbors) of the Amazon Sidewalk to be effected without knowing it.

Read about the Amazon Sidewalk and why some critics are raising privacy concerns.

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