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.

  • @Number1SummerJam@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15•1 year ago

    As an added bonus, anything with unnecessary wireless functionality can easily be hacked, controlled and monitored by anyone savvy enough

    • @cheery_coffee@lemmy.caEnglish
      11•1 year ago

      It would be hella cyberpunk for someone to hack lightbulbs, install IPFS on them, and set up free storage for everyone.

      Somebody would fill it all with goatse bitmaps or random numbers or something, but for a fleeting moment the internet would be weird again.