How smart toys spy on kids: what parents need to know
In our new paper, No Transparency for Smart Toys, we study privacy, transparency, and security of 12 smart toys. We find widespread behavioral profiling of children ("toy analytics"), a lack of transparency for parents due to insufficient and not easily accessible information about data collection and processing, and possible GDPR non-compliance (most of our subject access requests were not answered).
Overall, a concerning situation for parents & children, even though none of the toys are as bad as the "Hello Barbie" scandal.
Join us at the Annual Privacy Forum (privacyforum.eu) in Karlstad, Sweden, next week on September 4th for the paper presentation!
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-68024-3_11
If you do not subscribe to Springer, the preprint is available here: https://www.isabel-wagner.net/publications/feldbusch2024no/
This is joint work with Julika Feldbusch, Valentyna Pavliv, and Nima Akbari.