Hotspot and other suggestions

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May i suggest making Rabbit Hotspot capable. I m using my 2nd cell as my Hotspot and would love to jyst carry the rabbit as my Hotspot than carrying 2 phones. I also want to see a navigation app for the Rabbit. I don’t need GPS ( nice if we have it though), just aapp to showw me routes from point A to point B and C.

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Great suggestion, a hotspot would definitely improve its functionality but it might be a real drain on the battery??

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I would also like to share this experience of mine… if it can be of any help, one day I forgot the rabbit r1 at home and when I went to work I tried to connect to the hole.rabbit.tech and to my surprise I realized that I was browsing with my home IP address… I had never noticed that the LAM had my IP address.

That day I was literally at point A (work) connected from point B (home) to a LAM at point C (U.S.A.) :slight_smile:

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@mattdomko, my experience raises significant concerns regarding GDPR compliance, :slightly_frowning_face: again, particularly in relation to the rabbit r1 device’s handling of IP addresses and data routing. Here’s an analysis based on my previous experience…

Interesting… How is this possible?

  • I were at Point A (work), connected to Point B (home) via the rabbit r1 device, which routed through a LAM at Point C (USA).
  • This suggests that the rabbit r1 device may use a remote tunneling mechanism or proxy service to route data through its servers, potentially hosted on AWS in the United States.

Is this legal under European Union?

Under GDPR regulations, transferring personal data (such as IP addresses) outside the European Economic Area (EEA) requires specific safeguards:

  1. Legal Basis for Processing: Rabbit Inc. must justify why IP addresses are being logged and processed. If this is done without explicit user consent or legitimate interest, it could violate GDPR.
  2. Data Transfers to Non-EEA Countries: GDPR mandates that transfers to countries like the U.S. must comply with strict rules:
  • Adequate safeguards (e.g., Standard Contractual Clauses or Binding Corporate Rules).
  • Explicit user consent for such transfers.
  1. Transparency: Rabbit Inc. must clearly disclose in its Privacy Policy where and how data is stored and processed. :clown_face:

Potential Violations

Rabbit Inc. routes data through U.S.-based servers without proper safeguards:

  • This could breach GDPR’s requirements for international data transfers, especially after the invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.
  • Logging IP addresses without informing users or obtaining consent may also violate GDPR’s principles of transparency and purpose limitation.