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
    36•1 year ago

    This is a great innovation by Phillips, and it follows rule 8 from my best selling business book, “12 rules for business”.

    Rule 8: The business is always right - never give customers a choice when you can dictate the terms to them instead.