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American manufacturer of children’s products “Mattel” introduced A new model of the famous Barbie doll. The toy can be connected to Wi-Fi, which will allow her to communicate with the small owner, responding to her questions. The novelty will appear on store shelves already in this year, however, human rights activists from the United States launched a campaign designed not to allow this. What did the children’s toy prevent them from doing so?
The fact is that at the recent exhibition in New York representatives of “Mattel” said that the new doll received the name “Hello Barbie”, capable of talking with a child in the very literally the word. The toy is equipped with a built-in microphone and speaker. All questions asked by her children will be wireless. Networks are forwarded to a special server. There will be information be thoroughly analyzed, and the most appropriate answers are automatically send back.
Quite harmless entertainment, you say? Take your time with conclusions. New Barbie will become self-learning: she will learn preferences of the child and respond to him, based on the collected information. Over time, the doll will begin to use in conversation with the owner of the names of her parents and other relatives, nicknames pets, information about the house in which the family lives.
According to Angela Campbell, working at Georgetown Center privacy and technology, she would be very concerned if her daughter had such a toy. The woman did not want to get any information about her family to the server some kind of company. Moreover, the child must not be allowed to speak with a toy about some things and ban – about others.
It is planned that the doll will go on American sale in the fall. Parents will need to start a toy to activate the toy. special account on the Mattel website and accept that Barbie will record the speech of their child. Company representatives promise that recordings of all conversations of the doll with the child to parents can be heard in their account.
But is it worth buying such a “too smart” and at the same time too talkative doll?
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