Amazon is going to create mesh networks in the homes of out of certain devices in their stable of home automation devices (Alexa, Ring doorbell cameras, and some others), and people are going to be opted in if they don't change the settings in their Alexa app to opt out.
The article is from ArsTechinica, one of those far left tech sites we all hate (and former employer of convicted pedo Peter Bright). The commenters are not liking this at all, and are too tone deaf to see how their politics enabled this.
Here comes the mass surveillance that these cunts dream of. I don't trust my phone and there is nothing beyond my streaming boxes and computers connected to the internet. That's even too much.
Yeah, the safe thing to assume is that if it connects to the internet it's harvesting all the data it possibly can from you. You must assume your phone's mic and cameras are always active. Iphones have been shown to take IR images every 5 or so seconds.
That's the first I've heard about it, you should post that as a new thread.
I dont surf on portable devices, and have a pi-hole on my network to black hole all requests to various ad and user statistics URLs. I also run ad block on all browsers.
No one gets tracking info from me.
I have a pi. There is already big tech animosity towards them it seems. It will kick into overdrive if more people figure out pi-holes.