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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
Which is as it should be. Opt-out is not "a little sleazy", it's VERY sleazy, indefensible and should be automatically illegal. ANY data-gathering ploy like this is should only be allowed as opt-in. It's very hard for anyone to claim they're supporting users' freedom of choice if they defend a program that does not actually give users the choice to use it, but instead forces them to actively choose not to.
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Illegal?!? One needs to a get a bit of grip, here.
1) Sidewalk is not a data gathering ploy. Had you read the security whitepaper, you'd know this. And...
2) Illegal!?! C'mon. If a new feature being introduced as opt-out were illegal, most tech companies in existence would be fined every other day.
The irony here is that Sidewalk probably represents the first thing Amazon have done in a long, long while that ISN'T about data harvesting.