Experts warns AI toy apps for kids are tracking users and collecting personal data
- Cybernews analyzed 10 Android companion apps for kids' AI/robotic toys and reported half of all declared permissions are considered dangerous by Android guidelines
- The investigation found 3rd party trackers in 7 out of the 10 applications they examined
- Researchers also detected two advertising, two profiling and one location tracker as part of their investigation
With AI toys becoming increasingly adopted by families, security firms are ringing the alarm about what this means for privacy in a post-LLM world.
Modern AI toys incorporate LLM models, allowing users, including children, to talk to and otherwise interact with them, and granting unprecedented access and permissions that enable them to harvest sensitive data with ease if a bad actor were involved.
Cybernews recently examined 10 toys from various brands and found that many had excessive permissions at the application level, which could expose them to abuse or data harvesting.
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