[LINK] What Is Amazon Sidewalk, and Should You Disable It?

Hamish Moffatt hamish at moffatt.email
Sat Jun 5 14:38:51 AEST 2021


On 5/6/21 9:23 am, Jan Whitaker wrote:
> https://www.howtogeek.com/732351/what-is-amazon-sidewalk-and-should-you-disable-it/ 
>
>
> This is an article about Amazon's Sidewalk network - what it is, what 
> it does, and the impact on people who own these devices involved. It 
> also says how you can opt-out. In other words, unless the customer 
> knows it's there, it will be done without their consent.


Capped at 80Kbps and 500Mb per month. I'd be more worried about the 
privacy implications of AirTags than this.

The article has one rather glaring error though - ZigBee is not 900MHz, 
it is 2.4GHz.


Hamish




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