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Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud (www.home-assistant.io)

submitted 1 year ago by Remontoire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] Grippler@feddit.dk 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just say no to putting your shit on the cloud other people's computers.

Unfortunately self-hosting is not a realistic solution for the vast majority of the population. Even the best solutions out there for self-hosting are way too complex for most people. If it's not close to "point-click-done", with no debugging or maintenance whatsoever, it's just not a viable solution for most people. I'm decent with tech and do self-host a few things, but it's a complete PITA compared to "cloud" options.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats way we have to organize us in groups running strong homeserver behind VPN and proxy running all kinds of FOSS web services and federate those services with other groups.

A tech-noob should trust his local Sysadmin, not some (foreign) company

[–] Aux@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Lol, that's how all these companies came up in existence in the first place.