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.

  • Grippler@feddit.dkEnglish
    43·
    9 months ago

    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.

    • Rodeo@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I don’t use the cloud and I also don’t self host.

      Occasionally I have to put up with a minor inconvenience like putting a file on a USB stick and carry that physical USB stick with me. The horrific inconvenience! How do I survive

    • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      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

      • Grippler@feddit.dkEnglish
        3·
        9 months ago

        That’s still putting your data in some internet rando’s computer, because “trust me bruh!”…it’s still putting it in " the cloud", but now in a way that is nearly completely impossible to enforce things like GDPR

        • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Well, it’s not a random guy on the internet, it’s a guy in the neighborhood that you meet regularly (like a friend for example) and you trust. Well that’s the case for me, and I even grown out of noob state in many IT related stuff thanks to that. I bet anyone has that one guy (or girl of course) who is constantly talking about privacy, not? That’s the people you support and for example providing financial support on server parts in return for a save heaven for your data. But of course, if you trust nobody than yourself, you gota be Sysadmin yourself.

          • Grippler@feddit.dkEnglish
            2·
            9 months ago

            I think you’re severely overestimating the closeness of people’s relations to neighbors and availability of people with the skills to pull this off with high enough stability for other people to want to use it…and all in their free time outside of their regular job and personal life.

            • SaltySalamander@kbin.social
              2·
              9 months ago

              I think you’re severely overestimating the closeness of people’s relations to neighbors

              I think you’re speaking for yourself here.

              • Grippler@feddit.dkEnglish
                1·
                9 months ago

                Maybe, maybe not…it will vary greatly from country to country whether or not close social interaction with neighbors is the norm.

      • Aux@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 months ago

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

        • Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Yea, and we were happy with them in that state, it’s only a problem if companies grow too big and get to a near-monopoly state