“Prepare your daughter for a lifetime of surveillance with Hello Barbie, the doll that records children’s private conversations and transmits them to cloud servers, where they are analyzed by algorithms and listened to by strangers. Girls will learn important lessons, like that a friend might really be a corporate spy, and that anything you say can and will be used for market research.”
Police State America is making it fun for kids to spy on everyone: https://archive.is/5WLvt
"Hello Barbie is a terrible toy that threatens children's privacy…" said Josh Golin, CCFC's executive director. "We must stop Mattel and ToyTalk from spying on children's private play and spawning a whole host of eavesdropping imitators."
Google/NSA is developing kid's toys that come equipped with cameras and microphones: https://archive.is/QJ3c3
Google's patent describes toys that are equipped with microphones, speakers, cameras and a Wi-Fi connection.
These 'toys' are always on, listening for a trigger word.
The toys use a trigger word which causes them to wake up and turn their gaze towards the person addressing them, they also check if the person talking is making eye contact.
The patent adds, that making the device look "cute" should encourage even the youngest members of a family to interact with it.
According to Hello Barbie's Privacy FAQ private corporations are recording personal information…
The use of Hello Barbie involves her interacting with users, and audio recordings of such interactions may be captured when Hello Barbie is used. In addition to the recordings themselves, it is possible for children to provide personal information when they talk with Hello Barbie, and such information may be captured in these recordings."
Hello Barbie is equipped with speech recognition and archives every session, which 'parents' (not law enforcement wink, wink) can access to spy on their kid's conversations.
https://archive.is/ap8CB
http://massprivatei.blogspot.com/2015/11/kids-toys-are-recording-and.html