Anyone else get this email from Leviton about their decora light switches and their changes to ToS expressly permitting them to collect and use behavioral data from your devices?
FUCK Leviton, long live Zigbee and Zwave and all open-sourced standards
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At Leviton, we’re committed to providing an excellent smart home experience. Today, we wanted to share a few updates to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. Below is a quick look at key changes:
We’ve updated our privacy policy to provide more information about how we collect, use, and share certain data, and to add more information about our users’ privacy under various US and Canadian laws. For instance, Leviton works with third-party companies to collect necessary and legal data to utilize with affiliate marketing programs that provide appropriate recommendations. >As well, users can easily withdraw consent at any time by clicking the links below.
The updates take effect March 11th, 2024. Leviton will periodically send information regarding promotions, discounts, new products, and services. If you would like to unsubscribe from communications from Leviton, please click here. If you do not agree with the privacy policy/terms of service, you may request removal of your account by clicking this link.
For additional information or any questions, please contact us at dssupport@leviton.com.
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Did you really expect them to not collect your usage patterns?
I'm not defending them, I'm saying stop supporting these companies.
I have exactly zero of these automation devices in my house. Wait, that's a lie, I have one, a temp monitoring device for a freezer - and only because I needed it in a hurry.
I'm currently working on self-hosted solutions with no web-based account.
Simply don't use these automation devices, it's very clear they collect your data - why else would they host a web service for it for free, when it could just was easily be self-hosted today.
I found this on github to activate tplink kasa plugs and switches to a local IP and never phone home. It swaps the internal server lookup, and allows you to Activate to your wifi SSID with no app https://github.com/jkbenaim/hs100