http://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2016/12/8/13868826/my-friend-cayla-ique-intelligent-robot-privacy-policy
- violated kids’ privacy protections by recording their conversations without parental consent, according to a complaint sent to the FTC this week
- Once children talk to their toys, that voice data is sent to Nuance, a voice analysis firm that reportedly powers Siri and Samsung’s S Voice
- One of its products, Nuance Identifier, is a “highly accurate voice biometric solution that allows public security officials to quickly and easily identify known individuals through their voice within large audio data sets.”
This story focuses on the privacy aspect of the media and how new/digital media is emerging and becoming more and more advanced whereby it becomes an issue of privacy. This also poses a problem and both a techno/moral-panic through the idea of the social aspects of it, through the association with children and conventional toys posing issues. This therefore reveals the negative aspects of new/digital media and how it becomes an issue for younger generations too.
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