Tuesday, November 20, 2018

"So, uh, what's your Social Security number, kid?"

It's the cute toy tipped to be a Christmas hit, but there are fears ‘Dino’ the dinosaur may be vulnerable to hackers who could steal information about its young owners.

The ‘smart toy’, which is able to ‘learn’, answer questions and read bedtime stories, is among a series of technology gifts that have failed to win approval from the Mozilla Foundation...said it had been unable to determine if Dino – an internet-connected toy...uses sufficient encryption to guard against hackers.

It was also critical of the complexity of its privacy policy which includes an admission in the small print that, when a child plays with Dino, it automatically collects information about a child’s ‘likes and dislikes, interests, and other educational metrics’. more