Net-connected Barbie?

["Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah" <rmslade () shaw ca>]

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-31502898

Oh, I can't see any possible problems with that.

Let's see.  Like Siri, et al, the computing power, and data storage, for parsing
what the kid says is undoubtedly elsewhere.  (Mattel?  Apple?  Microsoft?  the
NSA?)  So, everything your kid says around the doll is going somewhere, and
being stored.  (Forever?)  Everything you, or anybody else, says around the doll
is being stored.

Then what kind of algorithm is being used to "feed" jokes and games?  There
wouldn't be *any* possibility that someone could tweak the agenda here, is
there?  No possibility of propaganda aimed at the kids?

And I'm *sure* that Mattel has thought long and hard about the security of all
those transactions.  They'd all be protected by bullet-proof crypto,
authentication and security so that no attacker could hijack the stream.  You
know, no crooks trying to find out if the kid is home alone with only an
inexperienced babysitter, no child pornographers teaching kids how to use
Webcams, no pedophiles setting up meets with the kids ...


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