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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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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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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This might be a stupid question, and I don't know if anyone would even have the knowledge to answer... but is this data ever audited? Other than possible lawsuits, what prevents me from randomly generating data points for my customers and selling them to these companies? I assume they are cross referencing with other data sets and they could catch on quickly?