To control your lights you soon need to create an account and share your data with the Hue cloud.

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.

  • echo64@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    This is probably less of a data privacy thing, you could probably just use a fake everything. This is probably a precursor to a subscription service. Subscribe to turn your lights on.

  • inffu@feddit.deEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    They already made it pretty complicated to use the Hue app without an account if you just want to control Bluetooth enabled lights without a bridge.