“Sidewalk”, the Amazon network that will siphon off your wifi

In a few years, Amazon, via its speakers and doorbells, has discreetly installed a new public internet network designed for connected objects.

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Journalist in the Multimedia department

By Thomas Casavecchia

Published on 9/04/2023 at 11:00
Reading time: 4 mins

SIf you haven’t spent hours going through the conditions of use of your Alexa speaker or your Ring doorbell, you have a good chance of falling from the clouds. Indeed, these devices, once connected to the wifi network, use a fraction of the bandwidth to create a second public network called “Sidewalk”.

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