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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] 18 points 1 year ago

I can think of a few companies / products that would love to know that you're in the bathroom every couple hours, for instance.

Or even anonymised, a company or study might want to buy "average Nova Scotian time spent in living room on weekends"

Big data is worth big $$$