With the caveat that corporate surveillance is not my specialty, I think it is quite naive to assume Amazon has no plan or idea how this will play into their re

With the caveat that corporate surveillance is not my specialty, I think it is quite naive to assume Amazon has no plan or idea how this will play into their revenue machine over time. Just as a precedent that I know of, things like this [1] popped into mind instantly. We see this pattern over and over again where tech company XYZ introduces some feature with an motive that appears innocuous but that contains the capacity to slide down the slope into full-blown corporate surveillance. I bet in two or three years' time HN's front page will have a blog post from some security researcher on how Sidewalk collects all this extra data to profile you. [1] https://www.wired.co.uk/article/linkuk-bt-google-free-wifi-and-calls-london https://www.wired.co.uk/article/linkuk-bt-google-free-wifi-a...