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Spying Smart Toys: How To Keep Your Kids Safe

In the era of modern conveniences where Amazon’s Alexa is ready to play any song or order you laundry pods and also collect an immense amount of data on your life, we should not forget these same technologies are making their way to children’s toys. Bluetooth, voice recognition, and other cutting-edge technologies are now bundled into the mechanics of what appear to be seemingly innocent toys.

The most controversial and prominent example is the My Friend Cayla doll. Cayla is an American made doll that lights up and can speak back to children and respond to questions like other voice technology connected to Bluetooth. The doll’s ability to connect to the Internet and its Bluetooth capability has brought pause in foreign countries.