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.

  • ShunkW@lemmy.worldEnglish
    604·
    1 year ago

    I’m struggling to understand the reasoning behind this. Like these are just lightbulbs right? What’s the value in that data that I’m not seeing

    • pomodoro_longbreak@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      14·
      1 year ago

      I can think of a few companies / products that would love to know that you’re in the bathroom every couple hours, for instance.

      Or even anonymised, a company or study might want to buy “average Nova Scotian time spent in living room on weekends”

      Big data is worth big $$$

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      1 year ago

      They’re light bulbs, they emit light, it’s literally what you’re seeing

      Edit: fuck, you people don’t understand humor. Is it not open-source?