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.
“I randomize user submitted data to the corporation selling it, how could this possibly be a problem?”
If you’re smart enough to mangle the data you give them, you’re smart enough to understand the issue here.
Get rid of your sunk cost bias and think it through