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.

  • Grippler@feddit.dkEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s still putting your data in some internet rando’s computer, because “trust me bruh!”…it’s still putting it in " the cloud", but now in a way that is nearly completely impossible to enforce things like GDPR

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Well, it’s not a random guy on the internet, it’s a guy in the neighborhood that you meet regularly (like a friend for example) and you trust. Well that’s the case for me, and I even grown out of noob state in many IT related stuff thanks to that. I bet anyone has that one guy (or girl of course) who is constantly talking about privacy, not? That’s the people you support and for example providing financial support on server parts in return for a save heaven for your data. But of course, if you trust nobody than yourself, you gota be Sysadmin yourself.

      • Grippler@feddit.dkEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I think you’re severely overestimating the closeness of people’s relations to neighbors and availability of people with the skills to pull this off with high enough stability for other people to want to use it…and all in their free time outside of their regular job and personal life.

        • SaltySalamander@kbin.social
          2·
          1 year ago

          I think you’re severely overestimating the closeness of people’s relations to neighbors

          I think you’re speaking for yourself here.

          • Grippler@feddit.dkEnglish
            1·
            1 year ago

            Maybe, maybe not…it will vary greatly from country to country whether or not close social interaction with neighbors is the norm.