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.

  • @[email protected]English
    10•9 months ago

    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?

    • @[email protected]English
      5•9 months ago

      When you sell fraudulent data you get sued for fraud. You can sell low quality data if you advertise it as such.

      If you create fraudulent data like adnausium you’ll likely just get banned from Google.

      A lot of this data is given for free in exchange for analytics from FB or Google on ad conversion…