Group that encourages parents not to buy toy launched an online boycott campaign
Washington, USA. The new Barbie doll is "smart" and is connected, although too much for the taste of some activists who defend online privacy. The giant Mattel launched this year a high-tech doll "Barbie Hello", which promises to become a major sales success because it allows children to speak and get answers from one of his favorite toys.
But for that to happen, the talks traveling on Wi-Fi networks for servers in the "cloud" that use artificial intelligence to send a personal response to children. For the activist group Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, risks that Barbie pose to individual privacy are much greater than their benefits.
"Children rely on their dolls and reveal intimate details of their lives, but Hello Barbie will not keep those conversations in secret," the group said in a statement. "When Barbie belt is pressed, what your child says is transmitted to servers in the cloud, where the technology partner of Mattel, ToyTalk, stores and analyzes everything," he indicates.
"The people of ToyTalk and its affiliates listen to recordings of conversations of children. And ToyTalk even tells who your partners, "he added. The organization also warns that the doll "can be tempting to hackers that through the doll, can access data stored by family networks and consumer devices."
#HellNoBarbie. A group with strong online performance created the hashtag #HellNoBarbie to encourage parents not to buy the doll. Mattel is silent but according ToyTalk, Hello Barbie incorporates "many security features."
The company assured that security passwords are stored in an encrypted section of the doll and not historical guard of conversation. He added that the data "are never used for advertising purposes" and that the doll is certified privacy protection law online children.
To address concerns about privacy, ToyTalk and Mattel launched a program to detect errors in which researchers are rewarded if they discover, in a responsible manner, potential vulnerabilities.
No creativity
Consumer defense. Barbie groups argue that the high-tech undermines creativity. In their view, children should use their own initiative to hold conversations with a doll.
Prejudice generates revolt in networks
A statement that called for girls attend a school Christmas show Cedro Association of Protection of Childhood Lebanon, in São Paulo, with loose and straight hair, caused outrage in social networks.
The notice asked that parents take away the girls with straight hair and loose so that the presentation scheduled for this Thursday, stay "even more beautiful." Text Below was a picture of actress Larissa Manoela, who played the character Maria Joaquina in "Carousel" novel. The image was shared on Facebook by page Lift Negro and had more than 14 000 shares on Wednesday afternoon. In response, they were posted pictures of black children with the hairstyles they love in the comments.
In a statement on the site, the school recognized "the erroneous message" and said repudiate "any form of prejudice and discrimination." Also reported that were taken all reasonable steps to ensure that "regrettable mistakes like this are not repeated". "What happened makes us broaden our view on the collective construction of an education based on respect for diversity, recognizing the identities of all," the school said in a statement.
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