Toniebox, Tiptoi, and Tamagotchi are smart toys, offering interactive play through ... They’re much easier to use than standard music players, allowing kids to turn on music and audio content ...

When the kids start asking for them ... the same privacy concerns that plague adult smart devices apply to these new kiddie gadgets. Whenever a toy has recording capabilities, the data is often ...

“Kids view their toys as friends. They’re not thinking about the fact that there’s a company on the other end that’s doing the listening and the talking.” The demand for smart toys ...

Experts warn that makers of smart toys could be selling that data to advertisers ... technologically and what's happening with their kids' data," Butler said. The FTC declined to comment.

"Smart toys" specifically, are causing concern and ... flaw that potentially allowed hackers to collect information on kids. That same year, Hello Barbie, Mattel’s Internet-connected iconic ...

AI meets playtime. Mattel and OpenAI plan to jointly design and launch a range of products using artificial intelligence.

And it's not just smart toys that pose a risk. One of the report's main concerns is water beads, colorful beads which expand when added to water. Dev Gowda, deputy director of Kids In Danger in ...

R.J. Cross is the director of Don’t Sell My Data and the report’s author and warned parents smart toys can bring new risks. The report noted apps could trick kids into making unsupervised in ...