{"id":6012,"date":"2015-02-25T07:15:05","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6012"},"modified":"2015-02-25T07:15:05","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T12:15:05","slug":"big-barbie-is-watching-you-meet-the-wifi-connected-barbie-doll-that-talks-to-your-children-and-records-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6012","title":{"rendered":"Big Barbie is Watching You \u2013 Meet the WiFi Connected Barbie Doll that Talks to Your Children and Records Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"post-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/02\/23\/the-internet-of-things-meet-the-wifi-connected-barbie-doll-that-talks-to-your-children-and-records-them\/\" target=\"_blank\">Big Barbie is Watching You \u2013 Meet the WiFi Connected Barbie Doll that Talks to Your Children and Records Them<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Earlier this month, I highlighted the fact that the latest Samsung\u00a0Smart TV can and will listen to your conversations, and will\u00a0share the details with a third party in the post:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/libertyblitzkrieg.com\/2015\/02\/09\/a-very-slippery-slope-yes-your-samsung-smart-tv-can-listen-to-your-private-conversations\/#more-21060\">A Very Slippery Slope \u2013 Yes, Your Samsung Smart TV Can Listen to Your Private Conversations<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Well a couple of weeks later, and we learn that Mattel\u2019s latest high-tech Barbie doll will bring the \u201cinternet of things\u201d right into your child\u2019s playpen. From the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/02\/19\/hello_barbie\/\"><em>The\u00a0Register<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><strong>Toymaker Mattel has unveiled a high-tech Barbie that will listen to your child, record its words, send them over the internet for processing, and talk back to your kid.<\/strong>\u00a0It will email you, as a parent, highlights of your youngster\u2019s conversations with the toy.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If Samsung\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2015\/02\/17\/samsung_smart_tv_privacy_rewind\/\" target=\"_blank\">spying smart TVs<\/a>\u00a0creeped you out, this doll may be setting off alarm bells too \u2013 so we drilled into what\u2019s going on.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Hello Barbie doll is developed by San Francisco startup\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.toytalk.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">ToyTalk<\/a>, which says it has more than $31m in funding from Greylock Partners, Charles River Ventures, Khosla Ventures, True Ventures and First Round Capital, and others.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Its Wi-Fi-connected Barbie toy has a microphone, a speaker, a small embedded computer with a battery that lasts about an hour, and Wi-Fi hardware.<\/strong>\u00a0When you press a button on her belt buckle, Barbie wakes up, asks a question, and turns on its microphone while the switch is held down.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big Barbie is Watching You \u2013 Meet the WiFi Connected Barbie Doll that Talks to Your Children and Records Them Earlier this month, I highlighted the fact that the latest Samsung\u00a0Smart TV can and will listen to your conversations, and will\u00a0share the details with a third party in the post:\u00a0A Very Slippery Slope \u2013 Yes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3777,3779,746,765,786,3780,3778],"class_list":["post-6012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-barbie","tag-mattel","tag-spying","tag-surveillance","tag-technology","tag-toytalk","tag-wifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6013,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6012\/revisions\/6013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}