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When a Tile device associates to another device that detects it, that device has to send a network packet to the cloud that says that it found a Tile with a cer
by URSpider94 5y ago
When a Tile device associates to another device that detects it, that device has to send a network packet to the cloud that says that it found a Tile with a certain serial number. That’s using your network/your bandwidth to transmit proprietary data about someone else’s property, without asking your permission. That’s exactly the same in kind, just maybe not in degree.
New Tile devices can play a sound on command. If you use Sidewalk to send a play-sound command to a Tile, then again you are using this proprietary shared network.
- katbyte 5y agoif this was doing for tile what find my did for airtags i don't think there would be such an uproar - this is open internet for whatever the device and manufacturer want to do not an encrypted "hey katbyte your airtag is here" that only the user at the other end can read - i trust apple, and maybe i trust amazon, but i don't; trust the flood of rando devices that will use and abuse this
- secabeen 5y agoPerhaps, but Apple didn't even ask about airtags, they just quietly broadened the "Find My network" across all Apple hardware to support this new feature. And there's nothing stopping apple from generalizing their "Find My" network to pass the same type of data that Amazon is.
- katbyte 5y agofind my is airtag location -> owner and sidewalk is device <-any data-> amazon/device owner. airtags has privacy built in and anti stalking, tile and amazon sidewalk does not. Sidewalk is enough bandwidth you could easily drop a location track & voice recorder on someone and have it spy - voice can go as low as 30kbps. one of these is not like the other