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kube-systemlast Monday at 7:37 PM0 repliesview on HN

Amazon used Echo devices for all kinds of invasive purposes other than advertised. Tracking the bluetooth identifiers of nearby devices is small potatoes compared to other things they've done:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Sidewalk

One of those purposes was to explicity use Echos for tracking purposes:

> Amazon’s partnership will allow it beef up its tracking network, called Sidewalk, by letting Tile and Level devices tap into the Bluetooth networks created by millions of its Echo products.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/07/amazon-partners-with-tile-to...