FBI WARNS PARENTS THAT SMART TOY'S MAY BE COLLECTING DATA ON CHILDREN AND FAMILYS
Federal Bureau Investigations (FBI) has issued a chilling warning to parents across America
claiming that their children�s toys may be used to spy on them.
FBI WARNS THAT CHILDREN�S TOYS COULD BE USED FOR SPYING The FBI posted the warning
to parents on their website, claiming that toys which can connect to the internet could
be incredibly dangerous.
These toys, the statement says, could contain devices such as microphones, data storage,
GPS tracking and speech recognition technology that could inadvertently result in personal
information about children and their families ending up in online databases.
Many of these toys encourage children to have conversations with them.
In the course of these conversations, the child could disclose their name, their school,
their daily habits, their activities and a plethora of other personal details about their
lives.
Naturally, this information could be phenomenally dangerous if it were to fall into the wrong
hands.
Clearly, the FBI is concerned about how vulnerable this information could leave children if it
happened to be accessed by sexual predators or by adults who are not supposed to have
contact with the child such as abusive parents.
This potential danger has become particularly acute in recent years given the rise of the
popularity of smart toys and entertainment devices which learn and tailor their activities
depending on how the user interacts with them.
America is not the first country to issue a warning about the potential danger surrounding
these toys.
In February of this year, Germany banned the sales and ownership of a talking doll by the
name of Cayla which made by the US toy manufacturer, Genesis Toys.
According to the German authorities, there was a risk of hacking associated with the
toy that meant that personal information about children and their families could be accessed
by third parties.
If parents had already purchased Cayla for their children, the German authorities suggested
that they should destroy
the toy.
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