New Barbie Will Talk With Children, Record Their Conversations And Send It To Researchers

‘A new toy called “Hello Barbie” will have conversations with children, record those conversations and send it to servers where it will get analyzed!

“Whatever we come away with as our first blush attempt at the conversations, we’ll see what kids want to talk about or not. We’ll take our honest best guess at that and then see what comes back, and then that will change and evolve over time as those conversations happen between individual children and Barbie dolls,” Oren Jacob, CEO of ToyTalk said in a recent statement.

However, security experts have raised concerns about how else that information could be used.’

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