Have you applied the latest updates to your daughter's Barbie?

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-...-barbie-doll-raises-security-concerns/6981528

The latest Barbie model, which maker Mattel hope to release before Christmas, will be wi-fi-enabled, making it possible for her to have a two-way conversation with her owner.
Those conversations are recorded and stored on the servers of ToyTalk, the company responsible for the technology.
Parents can even choose to upload and share those conversations online.
"You'd have to be mad to actually buy it," internet security commentator Stilgherrian said.
"The idea is kind of fun, you give your kids something to play with and it interacts with them.
"The problem is you are putting a device into the hands of children which they will have in their private spaces like their bedroom and you're connecting it to the internet."​
 
That's nuts, there would be no way I'd buy that for a young relative. It's creepy.
 
Creepy alright!

Little girls (especially) tell their deepest secrets to their doll or their teddy bear.
Imagine if those secret conversations got out?

On the other hand...if she is suffering sexual abuse and tells Barbie about it...hmmmmm!
 
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-11-...-barbie-doll-raises-security-concerns/6981528

The latest Barbie model, which maker Mattel hope to release before Christmas, will be wi-fi-enabled, making it possible for her to have a two-way conversation with her owner.
Those conversations are recorded and stored on the servers of ToyTalk, the company responsible for the technology.
Parents can even choose to upload and share those conversations online.
"You'd have to be mad to actually buy it," internet security commentator Stilgherrian said.
"The idea is kind of fun, you give your kids something to play with and it interacts with them.
"The problem is you are putting a device into the hands of children which they will have in their private spaces like their bedroom and you're connecting it to the internet."​

The most annoying thing about it would be, as I see it: the parents' intrusion in the kids life, even more so than the internet thing.

I'm all for keeping an eye on their own children. Nevertheless, as a teen, I felt v. annoyed that my parents were putting all sorts of signs to check whether I watched TV or movies instead of doing my homework.

But recording and having access to kids' conversations with their toys? Or nanny cameras? Yaiks, so intrussive and creepy, like the NSA listening to your sex conversations....
 
The most annoying thing about it would be, as I see it: the parents' intrusion in the kids life, even more so than the internet thing.

Growing up, as a teen, I felt v. annoyed that my parents were putting all sorts of signs to check whether I watched TV or movies instead of doing my homework.

But recording and having access to kids' conversations with their toys? Or nanny cameras? Yaiks, so intrussive and creepy, like the NSA listening to your sex conversations....

How old are you?

(pretending to be)
 
Winston opens the door fearfully, assuming that the Thought Police have arrived to arrest him for writing in the diary. However, it is only Mrs. Parsons, a neighbor in his apartment building, needing help with the plumbing while her husband is away. In Mrs. Parsons’s apartment, Winston is tormented by the fervent Parsons children, who, being Junior Spies, accuse him of thoughtcrime. The Junior Spies is an organization of children who monitor adults for disloyalty to the Party, and frequently succeed in catching them—Mrs. Parsons herself seems afraid of her zealous children. The children are very agitated because their mother won’t let them go to a public hanging of some of the Party’s political enemies in the park that evening. Back in his apartment, Winston remembers a dream in which a man’s voice—O’Brien’s, he thinks—said to him, “We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.” Winston writes in his diary that his thoughtcrime makes him a dead man, then he hides the book.
 
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