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

To control your lights you soon need to create an account and share your data with the Hue cloud.

Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to 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.

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

To control your lights you soon need to create an account and share your data with the Hue cloud.

Philips Hue will force users to upload their data to Hue cloud

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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Repair Cost Are Out of Control: $5,600 Bill for Some Tail Lamps?!

In this video we show you one example of how repair cost are out of control on modern vehicles nowadays. It is definitely something to consider when purchasing a new vehicle.

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foundation.mozilla.org It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security

All 25 car brands we researched earned our *Privacy Not Included warning label – making cars the worst category of products that we have ever reviewed

It’s Official: Cars Are Terrible at Privacy and Security

Ah, the wind in your hair, the open road ahead, and not a care in the world… except all the trackers, cameras, microphones, and sensors capturing your every move. Ugh. Modern cars are a privacy nightmare.

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www.techdirt.com E-Bike Industry Blames Consumers For Fires In Effort To Undermine ‘Right To Repair’ Laws

Countless companies and industries enjoy making up scary stories when it comes to justifying their opposition to making it easier to repair your own tech. Apple claims that empowering consumers and…

Countless companies and industries enjoy making up scary stories when it comes to justifying their opposition to making it easier to repair your own tech. Apple claims that empowering consumers and bolstering independent repair shops will turn states into “hacker meccas.” The car industry insists that making it easier and cheaper to repair modern cars will be a boon to sexual predators.

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Apple quotes customer $1075 to replace every part BESIDES the bad one 🤣

He discussing another right-to-repair story and how apple's genius bars are scamming people - Laptop owner baffled over two very different repair quotes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdr5RKi75NI

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Internet Censorship Does Not Make You Safe Online

In this video Mental Outlaw discusses how the governments attempts to censor the internet under the guise of safety like the French SREN Bill and the American Kids Online Safety Act do not provide any additional protections for people online and only restrict your digital freedom.

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John Deere brags about sabotaging competitors & customers on hot mic - they're PROUD of it!

John Deere brags about sabotaging competitors & customers on hot mic - they're PROUD of it!

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New gadgets sales are down, is it any surprise why?

#stickyourcloudstorage

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Red Hat stops all upstream and downstream work on desktop Bluetooth, multimedia applications (namely totem, rhythmbox and sound-juicer) and libfprint/fprintd (hadess.net)

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The Cyber Resilience Act is Worse than I Thought...

We need to start talking about the Cyber Resilience Act, because according to all major Open Source organizations the CRA is a threat to Free Software itself, and it has been approved by the European Committee that was working on it.

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  • It makes me laugh to think of the fake bad language that was invented for the comedy 'Father Ted', feck this and feck that

  • Google Wants To Destroy The Internet...

    ...with Apple and Microsoft, Mutahar's turn to take a look at "Web Environment Integrity"

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    Google's Web DRM is Worse than I Thought...

    This video as a text article: https://blog.nicco.love/google-drms-the-web/

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    No security or feature updates, but selling as "new." I guess they need to switch to Linux if able..

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    Australia’s prime minister stands firm against the US on WikiLeaks founder’s prosecution

    apnews.com Australia's prime minister stands firm against the US on WikiLeaks founder's prosecution

    Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said his government is standing firm against the United States over the prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

    Australia's prime minister stands firm against the US on WikiLeaks founder's prosecution

    Blinkered Blinken. USA Land of the free, my bollax

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    France passes bill to allow police remotely activate phone camera, microphone, spy on people
  • Whoever deleted it probably had the right idea, the source is not french and looks a sketchy as feck. I found the link again in my RSS reader and the amount of seriously dodgy adverts on it. The article is only available on these seriously sketchy so-called news sites.

  • Google Play Store is a Walled Garden - Here's How to Escape!
  • That's grand for the likes of us who can easily install over adb and such but that's no good to those like my 74 year old mother.

  • MIUI EU ROMs' bootloader
  • The best resource for me has always been the XDA Developers website https://forum.xda-developers.com/

  • Does anyone actually use LibreOffice?
  • Ah she doing okay, they have her in a neck brace for next three months and doing physiotherapy to keep her mobile, she has to have a nurse accompany her to stop her toppling over that kind of thing. She is stuck in hospital for the next few weeks until she is safe to let home and has home help.

  • Does anyone actually use LibreOffice?
  • Nothing to learn it's a doddle to use, My 76 year old mother was quite happily using it occasionally on linux box up until she broke her neck two weeks ago - really (4 vertebrae).

  • Are there any Reddit refugees spending more time on Lemmy than Reddit?
  • I closed my account when I learned that the pillok-in-chief was going to shaft developers.

  • Reddit CEO learns going to war with the internet is a LOSING battle
  • Personally I'm just enjoying the war.

  • Don Triplett, the first person diagnosed with autism, dead at 89
  • Thank you @positiveWHAT for the advice