PSA: Barbie is Spying On Your Children

Found this elsewhere and had to share:

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The Corporate overlords are now using Barbie, the popular children's doll, to record children's conversations and report them to the Corporate entity, Mattel. As far as we have been told, this is as far as this secretly gathered information will go. To what ends we do not know. Surely, there is more to this operation than what has been publicly disclosed. First it's the toys, then it's the TV (we already know about the phone and computers), and the what? Then perhaps it's transmissions rather than recordings. Yep, what will they be transmitting to our subconscious? Quote: Mattel's new "Hello Barbie" will "learn about its users over time." How? By recording what the child says and sending it to Mattel's servers, reports the Washington Post. Children will doubtless be thrilled to learn that the doll can also forward audio of whatever it hears to the parents. Mattel's comment to the Post: Quote: "Mattel is committed to safety and security, and Hello Barbie conforms to applicable government standards," Mattel said in a statement. Heh heh. In the post-Snowden period, citing "applicable government standards" as the moral floor below which one cannot sink -- when you're crafting a surveillance toy -- is not super reassuring. "Hello, Barbie" eavesdrops on kids, sends what it hears to Mattel - Boing Boing"