For over a decade Philips Hue offered lights that work without sharing your data to the cloud. This is changing soon and we need your help to make some noise to convince them to revert this decision.
https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2023/09/22/philips-hue-force-users-upload-data-to-cloud/
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[Update Oct 2: data sharing to become optional] 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.
@homeassistant Seems like it's not an option if you refuse tracking… that seems like a
#GDPR violation to me. :/
screen.png @lanodan @homeassistant Try contacting your local data protection authority?
@whynothugo @homeassistant Sadly with the CNIL it pretty much just means a ticket that's left open ~forever.
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