[Update Oct 2: data sharing to become optional] Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud
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To control your lights you soon need to create an account and share your data with the Hue cloud.

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.

  • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thats way we have to organize us in groups running strong homeserver behind VPN and proxy running all kinds of FOSS web services and federate those services with other groups.

    A tech-noob should trust his local Sysadmin, not some (foreign) company

    • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Lol, that’s how all these companies came up in existence in the first place.