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

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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] 3 points 1 year ago

You don't need the individual light bulb data for that, just the user accounts and device IDs would tell you who lives in the house, their relationships, and you can use the IP from the app's analytics eventing to approximate location to estimate household wealth.

The lightbulb data sounds fun, but not valuable.