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No bones about it, this is Amazon's response to

> If you don't want your smart tv to spy on you, then don't give it your wifi password.




"the street finds its own uses for things" (Gibson) is rapidly becoming "the wall street finds its own uses for things"


How's does it stand legally stealing people's Internet connection and selling it to people who don't have the password.


Point this logic at the Tile network or Apple’s FindMy network. Does it still work?


Legally, every Amazon device user agreed to a TOS that lets Amazon do whatever they want and change at any time.

So we’re kind of lucky they at least announced it as they could have just turned it on and opted everyone in.




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