{"id":112613,"date":"2015-03-17T07:38:35","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T07:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=112613"},"modified":"2015-03-21T07:06:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T07:06:20","slug":"hello-barbie-the-creepy-doll-that-spies-on-kids-and-their-parents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=112613","title":{"rendered":"Hello Barbie : The Creepy Doll That Spies on Kids \u2026 and their Parents"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Vigilant Citizen &#8212; vigilantcitizen.com March 16, 2015<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_112615\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Hello-Barbie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-112615\" class=\"size-full wp-image-112615\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Hello-Barbie.jpg\" alt=\"Hello Barbie. Click to enlarge\" width=\"580\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Hello-Barbie.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Hello-Barbie-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-112615\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hello Barbie. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>Hello Barbie is \u201cthe world\u2019s first interactive Barbie doll\u201d \u2026 and it is rather creepy. Equipped with a microphone and internet connectivity, the doll asks questions to children, records their answers and send the information back to Mattel servers where it is filed and processed by a powerful algorithm.<\/h5>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>Hello Barbie works by recording a child\u2019s voice with an embedded microphone that is triggered by pressing a button on the\u00a0doll. As the doll \u201clistens,\u201d audio recordings travel over the Web to a server where the snippets of speech are recognized\u00a0and processed. That information is used to help form Hello Barbie\u2019s responses.<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u2013 Washington Post,<\/span><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2015\/03\/11\/privacy-advocates-try-to-keep-creepy-eavesdropping-hello-barbie-from-hitting-shelves\/?tid=sm_tw\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Privacy advocates try to keep \u2018creepy,\u2019 \u2018eavesdropping\u2019 Hello Barbie from hitting shelves<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5>At the New York toy fair, Mattel representatives demonstrated Hello Barbie\u2019s capabilities.<\/h5>\n<blockquote>\n<h5>At the demonstration at the New York toy fair, the Mattel representative chatting with Hello Barbie\u00a0mentioned that she liked being onstage. Later in the conversation, when the Mattel representative asked Hello Barbie what\u00a0she should be when she grew up, the doll responded, \u201cWell, you told me you like being onstage. So maybe a dancer? Or a politician?\u00a0Or how about a dancing politician?\u201d<\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\"> \u2013 Ibid.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5>A quick review of the privacy policy of ToyTalk (the subdivision that handles Hello Barbie), reveals that the information recorded could be used for a variety of reasons.<\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vigilantcitizen.com\/latestnews\/hello-barbie-the-creepy-doll-that-spies-on-kids-and-their-parents\/\">Continues &#8230; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mattel&#8217;s latest doll talks with children, records their answers and sends the information back to a database via Wifi and Bluetooth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,59],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Surveillance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=112613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112616,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112613\/revisions\/112616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=112613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=112613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=112613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}