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 ...

"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 ...

The U.S. PIRG report comes as holiday toy season ramps up. A new report from the U.S. Public Interest Research Group Education Fund, a national network of consumer advocacy groups, is raising the ...

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 ...

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 ...

The smart toy sector is worth close to $17 billion and ... because of data security and privacy concerns. "Kids' private information is a literal goldmine to these companies," Knox said.

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.

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 ...