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.

  • @batmangrundiesEnglish
    30•1 year ago

    I mean I’ll create an account and then block any of that data sharing on my router.

    My whole house I sent up with Hue lights.

    I’m Australian and I’ll be contacting the ACCC.

    • @EmpyreusEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      What does contacting the ACCC do exactly?

      • @batmangrundiesEnglish
        8•1 year ago

        They are the reason Steam instituted a refund policy globally.

        The ACCC have real teeth.