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Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud (www.home-assistant.io)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5717757

Today’s story is about Philips Hue by Signify. They will soon start forcing accounts on all users and upload user data to their cloud. For now, Signify says you’ll still be able to control your Hue lights locally as you’re currently used to, but we don’t know if this may change in the future. The privacy policy allows them to store the data and share it with partners.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Likely they want detailed user data and what devices you use, and they want to cross reference that with geolocation so they can upsell you stuff.

I would say it's likely they'll start serving ads in the app and "recommending" you other services or things like a subscription. Any app that you have to look at will get ads these days, just look at Uber.

This is why I bought IKEA bulbs that are dumb. I avoid anything that uses an app, because it will update itself to make a new thing sell better.