&gt; No way they would get away with that, especially as they&#x27;re both European companies and consumer protections laws...<p>I&#x27;m curious. Why would you think they couldn&#x27;t get away with it? I don&#x27;t have one of these scales but I&#x27;d guess that they function as ordinary scales just fine (i.e. accurate readings), without the backend stuff. The &#x27;cloud features&#x27; are probably under some ToS that lets them do whatever they want (like shut it down). The fact that people bought it for <i>exactly that feature</i> doesn&#x27;t seem to have much bearing.