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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Least privilege should apply to data collection as well. These companies should be collection the least amount of data possible to perform the service the customer is buying. The design of the product should have the goal of needing the least amount of data possible.
As I see it, a light bulb should require 0 user data to function.