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Amazon just started sharing your internet connection with your neighbors

It seems that no matter where you go, something's tracking you

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/amazon-just...-neighbors

Your public profile is created automatically, whether you want it or not, and it contains your comments and any ratings that you have left on products purchased on Amazon. Your biographical information and other site interactions are also posted to your profile.
Amazon's Ring cameras are watching, and hundreds of police departments can tap into the footage.
About a year ago, Amazon quietly announced a new product called Sidewalk, which is basically a mesh network that extends your Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connection range by up to a mile.
Sidewalk turns your Echo speakers and Ring gadgets into bridge devices. That gives internet-connected tech far from your router, like lights at the edge of your driveway, a real boost.

If you own any of those devices, you better opt out of its products or remove personal information from your profile.

How exactly does that work?

Sidewalk uses a "small portion" of your internet bandwidth to pass low-energy Bluetooth connections and 900 MHz radio signals across all those connected devices.

Amazon claims they use 3 layers of encryption but that doesn't mean a hacker couldn't invade your device at some point and still get access to your data.

YouTube, other Google services suffer outage
“Something went wrong,” said a message on the YouTube home page

https://www.foxnews.com/tech/youtube-oth...fer-outage

“Something went wrong,” said a message on the YouTube home page. The Downdetector website also noted problems accessing the video-sharing service.
Citing user reports, Downdetector also mentioned problems with Gmail, Google Drive, Google Classroom, Google Home and Nest, which is owned by Google.

https://twitter.com/TeamYouTube/status/1...9084999681

Some apps started to come back online, with Google Search working as of 7:29 a.m. EST for some users and Gmail was working at 7:32 a.m. EST.

Google Outage - BBC

It also had a knock-on effect on other apps, with players of the smartphone game Pokémon Go, for example, reporting being unable to log in.
The cause of the problem is unclear. However, while it lasted, users were still able to access the websites' landing pages in "incognito mode", which does not store a log of the users' browsing activity.

According to BBC, the outage didn't last long. As you can see, you can open Google Drive right now.