If the Hello Barbie complaints weren’t enough, now it has been announced that researchers determined that the kids’ toys, the Fisher-Price Smart Toy Bear and the hereO GPS watch, had some serious security vulnerabilities. The Smart Toy Bear’s backend programming used unsecured application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow portions of software code to interact. Sounds
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Hello Barbie may not be as smart as we thought
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Children's Privacy, Data Privacy
We wrote previously about the “Hell No Barbie Campaign” and the recent lawsuit against Mattel for its Hello Barbie doll privacy violations, but through all this hype, we have yet to learn exactly what Hello Barbie is truly capable of. In a new report, Hello Barbie isn’t so bright. First, in order for…
Mattel gets hit with class action over Hello Barbie’s invasion of children’s privacy
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Children's Privacy, Enforcement + Litigation
We reported last month ago about the release of Mattel’s new Hello Barbie (and the “Hell No Barbie Campaign”), with the capability to ‘carry a conversation’ with a child using speech recognition software and storage of conversations in the cloud. This week, in Los Angeles Superior Court, two moms filed a class action on behalf…
“Hell No Barbie” Campaign against the new interactive doll with artificial intelligence
By Kathryn Rattigan on
Posted in Children's Privacy, Data Privacy
Well folks, it’s that time of year again, the time of year where the latest and greatest toys hit the shelves just in time for the Christmas shopping season. This year, one of the most controversial toys to hit the shelves will be Hello Barbie, which is an interactive doll with artificial intelligence capable…