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Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud (www.home-assistant.io)

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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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[-] boolean@kbin.social 33 points 1 year ago

also, room names. You can get a pretty good idea of a house's interior layout from the names and sequence of lights being activated. The ongoing attempts to map data to the physical world.

Sonos did this a few years ago and there was a similar outcry. I have stopped using Sonos devices too.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Oh God, I have an odd sense of humor. I would probably have the cops called on me lol.

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