{"id":11489,"date":"2021-06-10T03:59:43","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T03:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=11489"},"modified":"2021-06-10T03:59:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T03:59:43","slug":"amazon-echo-devices-are-now-sharing-wi-fi-bandwidth-by-default-but-users-can-turn-it-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=11489","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Echo devices are now sharing Wi-Fi bandwidth by default, but users can turn it off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostDo you own an Amazon smart device? If so, odds are good that the company is already sharing your internet connection with your neighbours unless you\u2019ve specifically told it not to.On Tuesday, the company launched a program that forces users of many Echo smart speakers and Ring security cameras to automatically share a small portion of their home wireless bandwidth with neighbours. The only way to stop it is to turn it off yourself.Amazon says the program, called Amazon Sidewalk, is a way to\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3136731\/amazon-echo-devices-are-now-sharing-wi-fi-bandwidth-default-users-can?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostDo you own an Amazon smart device? If so, odds are good that the company is already sharing your internet connection with your neighbours&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}