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.

  • @GripplerEnglish
    2•9 months 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
      2•9 months ago

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

      I think you’re speaking for yourself here.

      • @GripplerEnglish
        1•9 months ago

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