This is inevitable with most "smart home" crap. Wireless-enabled appliances don't sell well unless they can (sort of-) compete with their "dumb" counterparts on price. How do you sell a complicated piece of technology at the price of a simpler device? You banish quality control and slurp up personal data. That's not a new concept to Philips or any other consumer IoT company. They're just getting better at doing it.