380: Amazon's Sidewalk, to help and extend our smart home networks!?

Amazon is rolling out sidewalk, a feature baked into over 20 Amazon devices that's meant to help extend the range of our smart home networks by essentially creating a mesh network of certain smart devices we have. First thought, this is really cool! Second thought, what are the privacy implications? –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Let's continue our discussion! Follow me on Twitter at @dexter_johnson and visit http://DexJohnsPC.com to stay on top of my latest blog posts about the world of technology. Share this podcast with a friend! Links from this episode: https://www.cnet.com/how-to/amazon-sidewalk-will-create-entire-smart-neighborhoods-faq-ble-900-mhz/ https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/11/24/what-you-need-to-know-about-amazon-sidewalk Whitepaper: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/G/01/sidewalk/privacy_security_whitepaper_final.pdf Intro music details: –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– RETRO Xcape by Lahar https://soundcloud.com/musicbylahar Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported — CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/retro-xcape Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/eHHMlcSVBgE –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Outro music details: –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Reloaded by Savfk - Music https://soundcloud.com/savfk Creative Commons — Attribution 3.0 Unported— CC BY 3.0 Free Download / Stream: https://bit.ly/_reloaded Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/IlUSKojxLxU ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––