Big Barbie is Watching You - Barbie doll is Recording Children - Polidicks

[QUOTE]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. It will email you, as a parent, highlights of your youngster’s conversations with the toy. 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. When 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. Crucially, the recorded audio of children’s voices (and whatever else happens to be going on around them when they push the buckle button) is kept on ToyTalk’s computers. This material is supposed to help Mattel and ToyTalk improve Barb’s scripted replies. It’s also good test data for developing the voice-recognition code.The ToyTalk privacy policy page, dated last April well before Hello Barbie was revealed this week, states: When users interact with ToyTalk, we may capture photographs or audio or video recordings (the “Recordings”) of such interactions, depending upon the particular application being used. We may use, transcribe and store such Recordings to provide and maintain the Service, to develop, test or improve speech recognition technology and artificial intelligence algorithms, and for other research and development or internal purposes. We may make such Recordings available to the parent account holder and permit the parent account holder to share such Recordings with third parties.[/QUOTE] [URL="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/02/23/the-internet-of-things-meet-the-wifi-connected-barbie-doll-that-talks-to-your-children-and-records-them/"]Source[/URL] What the fuck Mattel. This is pretty creepy shit Sorry if I did anything wrong. This is my first time posting on SH.

children do not need this nobody needs this

Jesus Christ, is this satire?

'dress me like one of your french girls'

I don't think it's too bad of a thing. If we allow Google and Appleto use our voices to improve speech recognition, why can't a toy company? I think it would get really valuable data, as a lot of children are uncomfortable with talking to their parents about personal problems and such. [editline]8th March 2015[/editline] Its one of those "with great power comes great responsibility" things. Mattel should hopefully not be idiots and use the toy to data mine for advertising.

reminds me of how the state department or whoever had to ban people from bringing Furbies into the building because their eyes were actually cameras equipped with microphones.

[QUOTE=J!NX;47284005]Jesus Christ, is this satire?[/QUOTE] No, I saw a News Node article. The upshot is that it's likely to be easily hackable (client-side), which should be pretty funny.

[QUOTE=BackSapper;47284009] I think it would get really valuable data, as a lot of children are uncomfortable with talking to their parents about personal problems and such. [/QUOTE] But if those kids don't want to talk to their parents about that sort of stuff, shouldn't they like, have the right not to? Having parents listening in on what their kids are saying when they think they're alone is pretty creepy tbh.

[QUOTE=BackSapper;47284009]I don't think it's too bad of a thing. If we allow Google and Appleto use our voices to improve speech recognition, why can't a toy company? I think it would get really valuable data, as a lot of children are uncomfortable with talking to their parents about personal problems and such. [editline]8th March 2015[/editline] Its one of those "with great power comes great responsibility" things. Mattel should hopefully not be idiots and use the toy to data mine for advertising.[/QUOTE] I don't see what's so creepy with this either. It's an attempt at a high-technological toy that can talk back to the kid. Of course the recorded voices needs to be processed and stored temporarily to make the voice recognition and replies better.

Now the Barbie can tell the kid she wants that new car that just came out, and the new house, and that new dress. All in real time.

Every day it becomes harder to distinguish credible news stories from articles from the onion.

I can see this being easily abused.

[QUOTE=ZenZill;47284116]I can see this being easily abused.[/QUOTE] Somebody acts creepy towards Barbie and she eventually refuses to talk to them.

Wow, ever since the fingerprint scanner in iPhones, the illuminati don't even bother to hide their spying equipment anymore

The ultimate toy for the budding schizophrenic child!

[QUOTE=_jesterk;47284048]reminds me of how the state department or whoever had to ban people from bringing Furbies into the building because their eyes were actually cameras equipped with microphones.[/QUOTE] The NSA, CIA, Naval Yard, and Pentagon banned them because they thought they could record you in 1999. The toymaker issued a statement basically laughingly saying that 'good job idiots it can't record you,' it just said a bunch of common phrases every now and them to make people feel as if it was copying them. [editline]8th March 2015[/editline] Which holds true when you open one up, it can't record you. There's a shitty mic and no cameras, and the mic can't even record human voice. It records wavelengths that triggers certain phrases by the Furby. They still scare me regardless.

[QUOTE=J!NX;47284005]Jesus Christ, is this satire?[/QUOTE] Seriously, how the fuck is this not satire!?

[QUOTE=Used Car Salesman;47284347]Seriously, how the fuck is this not satire!?[/QUOTE] because of how insane and ridiculous this is, it's pretty easy to see how this could be a joke

Isn't there already a doll like this? IIRC it was hacked to swear at children.

I can imagine news of this saying some insane shit like "kill your parents" popping up if this goes wrong :v:

[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;47284059]But if those kids don't want to talk to their parents about that sort of stuff, shouldn't they like, have the right not to? Having parents listening in on what their kids are saying when they think they're alone is pretty creepy tbh.[/QUOTE] It would be valuable to those who are shy about talking about themselves. Something as simple as a kid having an upset stomach or an ingrown nail, or even bullying problems could be pin pointed through the use of an "imaginary friend". It could also be used as a great development tool for mentally I'll children.

Internet-connected dolls are a can of worms and are a really, really shitty idea. Why even bother with needing to constantly worry "oh shit, are bad people going to fuck with this thing somehow".

An image from the beta test. [t]http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130905012052/spongebob/images/7/73/Confess_a_bear_1.png[/t]

If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing fear :^)

[QUOTE=Mort Stroodle;47284059]But if those kids don't want to talk to their parents about that sort of stuff, shouldn't they like, have the right not to? Having parents listening in on what their kids are saying when they think they're alone is pretty creepy tbh.[/QUOTE] "I told that doll [I]everything[/I]!"

[QUOTE=Vic_Boss1;47285327]If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing fear :^)[/QUOTE] I absolutely hate it when people say this. What if I don't want my internet traffic to be intercepted by a third party? I never do anything illegal on the internet but the through of someone staring at a screen seeing what I've been on going "Hmm, this man has a rather interesting taste in pornography" and judging me is pretty scary. Same applies to any survallnce that you aren't warned about at all.

More than likely the doll is running proprietary software which makes this even worse and possibly unethical.

[QUOTE=Vic_Boss1;47285327]If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing fear :^)[/QUOTE] Every human being has something to hide, and I bet you do too. Or maybe you would like to just give me your credit card number and expiration date? You don't have anything to hide, right?

The :^) makes it sarcastic.

I don't see how this is creepy