Collaborate Disseminate
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With smartwatches designed especially for kids being available now, parents
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Tools built in to Disney apps collect, track and share personal data in breach of law designed to protect kids, alleges lawsuit Continue reading Parents sue Disney over breaching privacy rules in kids’ apps
Following a class action lawsuit, Disney is fighting allegations this week that its apps fail to safeguard children’s personal information. Continue reading Lawsuit Alleges Disney Illegally Tracks Children Via Apps
Some police and child protection authorities are advising parents to turn off the new feature Continue reading Snapchat starts sharing your (and your kids’) location. Turn it off.
Researchers have built a doll with an AI chip and a camera that can interpret a child’s emotions. What could possibly go wrong? Continue reading Coming soon (maybe) to toyshops – AI doll that can read kids’ emotions
Federal cybersecurity and privacy protections for children are not keeping up with the burgeoning data collection engaged in by “smart” toys and online games, Sen. Mark Warner said Monday, asking the Federal Trade Commission if the law needs to be changed. In a letter to acting FTC Chairwoman Maureen Ohlhausen, the senator says he’s concerned the agency is soft-pedaling the dangers the Internet of Things might pose for children, citing a speech she gave earlier this year. “Reports of your statements casting these risks as merely speculative — and dismissing consumer harms that don’t pose “monetary injury or unwarranted health and safety risks” — only deepen my concerns,” the Virginia Democrat wrote. He cites the recent example of CloudPets, a product from Spiral Toys that’s marketed as “a message you can hug.” The company turned out to be storing users’ personal data in an insecure, public-facing online database — reportedly exposing over 800,000 customer logins and passwords and more than 2 million voice recordings […]
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Children of the 1980s who had an interest in technology were lucky indeed. As well as the first generations of home computers at their disposal they had the expectation to program them, something which the generation that followed had lost.
Traditional children’s publishers enthusiastically embraced the home computer boom, and probably for the only time in history there were books aimed at children covering subjects like machine code, or interfacing to microprocessors.
If you are British, the most memorable of these books came from Usborne Publishing. Their format of colourful cartoons and easy to digest layout have made them something …read more
CloudPets are an Internet-connected stuffed animals that allow children and parents to send each other voice messages. Last week, we learned that Spiral Toys had such poor security that it exposed 800,000 customer credentials, and two million audio recordings. As we’ve seen time and time again in the last couple of years, so-called "smart" devices connected to the internet –… Continue reading IoT Teddy Bear Leaked Personal Audio Recordings
More bad news for toymaker Spiral Toys, which left customer data from its “CloudPets” brand exposed online. Continue reading How This Internet of Things Stuffed Animal Can Be Remotely Turned Into a Spy Device
A company that sells “smart” teddy bears leaked 800,000 user account credentials—and then hackers locked it and held it for ransom. Continue reading Internet of Things Teddy Bear Leaked 2 Million Parent and Kids Message Recordings
