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[-] local_taxi_fix@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

What times your lights are on or off can expose more than you might think over time. It reveals when you're gone for work, your sleep schedule, how many days a year you spend at home vs traveling/elsewhere, when you stay up late, etc.

But it gets worse. If you give Hue your email or install the app then now you can be uniquely id'd across other products. Hue will sell that data to some advertising agency, who also buys data from Google, Facebook, etc. Now your usage data from other systems can be combined with the Hue data and used to more even more accurately track your day and behaviors.

[-] sebinspace@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Big data is a fascinating field, if not completely horrifying.

[-] electromage@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Also when the keys are inevitably discovered on an unsecured S3 bucket, everyone will have it! In addition to your billing information and other PII.

this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2023
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