Mon Mar 16, 2015, 11:43 PM

Hello Barbie :The Creepy Doll That Spies on Kids ... and their Parents

Mattel’s latest doll Hello Barbie dialogs with children, records their answers and sends the information back to a database via Wifi and Bluetooth.

Hello Barbie is “the world’s first interactive Barbie doll” … and it is rather creepy. Equipped with a microphone and internet connectivity, the doll asks questions to children, records their answers and send the information back to Mattel servers where it is filed and processed by a powerful algorithm.

http://vigilantcitizen.com/latestnews/hello-barbie-the-creepy-doll-that-spies-on-kids-and-their-parents/?utm_source=wysija&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=barbie+Email

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Hello Barbie :The Creepy Doll That Spies on Kids ... and their Parents (Original post)	TheNutcracker	Mar 2015	OP
"to monitor and analyze usage and trends and demographic information"	NYC_SKP	Mar 2015	#1
Taking Talking Tina to the next level	Art_from_Ark	Mar 2015	#3
wtf? whose bright idea was this, and why?	ND-Dem	Mar 2015	#2
Creepy...	Dont call me Shirley	Mar 2015	#4
This is reminding me of a sci-fi short story ...	surrealAmerican	Mar 2015	#5
Jesus Christ	cyberswede	Mar 2015	#6
I'd suggest reading this article, not the one linked.	Archae	Mar 2015	#7
The talking Bild Lilli doll for adults is going to be awesome!	hunter	Mar 2015	#8

Response to TheNutcracker (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2015, 01:18 AM

NYC_SKP (68,644 posts)

1. "to monitor and analyze usage and trends and demographic information"

Just part of the creepy language about the recording and analysis of information.

This data will be sold to marketing companies, just the same thing that makes Facebook such a money maker, even though it's a free service.

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Tue Mar 17, 2015, 01:26 AM

Art_from_Ark (27,247 posts)

3. Taking Talking Tina to the next level

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Response to TheNutcracker (Original post)

Tue Mar 17, 2015, 01:22 AM

ND-Dem (4,571 posts)

2. wtf? whose bright idea was this, and why?

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Tue Mar 17, 2015, 09:37 AM

Dont call me Shirley (10,998 posts)

4. Creepy...

Wait till Barbs starts instructing little girls while they're asleep to do creepy things. Like "go take your moms credit card and read me the numbers".

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Tue Mar 17, 2015, 10:07 AM

surrealAmerican (11,219 posts)

5. This is reminding me of a sci-fi short story ...

... I Always Do What Teddy Says. I looked it up written by Harry Harrison in 1965.

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Tue Mar 17, 2015, 10:17 AM

cyberswede (26,117 posts)

6. Jesus Christ

In my day, we made up our own dialog between our Barbies, Kens and Skippers.

The creepy spy factor aside, why does your doll need to talk back to you?

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Tue Mar 17, 2015, 10:25 AM

Archae (45,769 posts)

7. I'd suggest reading this article, not the one linked.

The website in the link is a frothing conspiracy theory nutcase site.

Other headlines there:

"A Prophetic Clip From a 1981 Sitcom Explains the Rockefellers’ Trilateral Commission and the NWO Agenda (video)"

"Children Describe Satanic Ritual Abuse and Sacrifice (Updated) (video)"

Try this one.

http://www.thestar.com/business/2015/03/16/mattel-in-hot-water-over-interactive-hello-barbie.html

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Tue Mar 17, 2015, 11:35 AM

hunter (37,604 posts)

8. The talking Bild Lilli doll for adults is going to be awesome!

Bild Lilli was Barbie's mom.

Lilli was post-war, sassy and ambitious and had no reservations talking about sex. As she had her own job she earned her own money as a secretary but wasn't above hanging out with rich men ("I could do without balding old men but my budget couldn't!"

. The cartoon always consisted of a picture of Lilli talking to girlfriends, boyfriends, her boss ("As you were angry when I was late this morning I will leave the office at five p.m. sharp!"

. The quips underneath the cartoons handled topics ranging from fashion (to a policeman who told her that two-piece-swimsuits are banned: "Which piece do you want me to take off?"

, politics ("Of course I'm interested in politics; no one should ignore the way some politicians dress!"

and even the beauty of nature ("The sunrise is so beautiful that I always stay late at the nightclub to see it!"

. The last Lilli cartoon appeared on January 5, 1961.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild_Lilli_doll

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