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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 Remontoire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] killeronthecorner@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It builds a profile of you, and then they combine that with thousands of other profiles to build demographic profiles and then they sell this data to other firms or use it to further tune their own advertising services.

The same as pretty much every other company on the Internet. If it didn't work they wouldn't do it. Some people not understanding this due to over simplified examples makes no difference to that.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

If it didn't work they wouldn't do it.

That's not necessarily true, people do things that don't work all the time, sometimes for a long time. There have been millions if not billions of dollars dumped into shit that doesn't work. Using charts to predict the stock market doesn't work, yet you can find people still doing it to this day.