Amazon Sidewalk Explained
What is Amazon Sidewalk and why should I care?
"Sidewalk uses a small portion of your Internet bandwidth to provide these services to you and your neighbors. This setting will apply to all of your supported Echo and Ring devices that are linked to your Amazon account."
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How to opt-out?
If you want to opt-out of the Amazon Sidewalk program and prevent Amazon from sharing your network/internet services with neighboring devices, this is easy to do.
- On your mobile device, open the Amazon Alexa app and select More and then Settings.
- Select Account Settings.
- Select Amazon Sidewalk.
- Toggle the Enabled function off to opt-out.