# LG acquires Athom

**URL:** <https://community.homey.app/t/lg-acquires-athom/112310>\
**Category:** Off-Topic\
**Created:** [July 3, 2024, 3:50am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/lg-acquires-athom/112310 "2024-07-03T03:50:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChrisG](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex025/user_avatar/community.homey.app/chrisg/32/8825_2.png) [@ChrisG](https://community.homey.app/u/ChrisG)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2024, 9:21am UTC](https://community.homey.app/t/lg-acquires-athom/112310/145 "2024-07-04T09:21:45Z")

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Until now, the community has trusted Athom, but this trust was completely destroyed yesterday, because LG is generally not a company that thinks much of data protection [see Press Release](https://www.publicnow.com/view/8F24EC4E9D22206E5F6912C96D98BFD11C2E07FE?1719985673).

However, everyone is free to decide how he/she should or can deal with the situation. For me, I have made a decision with a heavy heart, I will migrate my HP2023 to HA and then sell it.

To ensure the support of my [existing apps](https://homey.app/en-ch/apps/author/59c891b89a957ad40c82f779/page/0/), I will get my HP2016 out of the museum, because the app users are innocent of the current situation and my decision. But what I certainly won’t do is implement any of the planned 3 to 4 apps, because it’s too much time and effort for me just so that LG-Homey can spy on us and make money with our data.

PS: My motto is: “My home is my castle” and it stays that way…

THX Chris (Former happy developer & user since 2017)

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