Horror stories have abounded in recent years about how those little children’s toys that have electronics embedded actually spy on children, listening to what they say and recording it, then connecting to WiFi and sending those personal and intimate family details back to a corporation.

Privacy groups have complained to the Federal Trade Commission about toys like “My Friend Cayla,” “I-Que Intelligent Robot” and “Aristotle,” which are “always-on” toys that hear whatever sounds are in the room.

WND reported only months ago how U.S. Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., wrote to the FTC expressing concern that the regulations for toys and related products are not keeping pace with “consumer and technology trends.”

He said toys that spy on kids by automatically connecting to the Internet through WiFi can deliver tantalizing tidbits of information about their lives to marketers.

“I worry that protections for children are not keeping pace with consumer and technology trends shaping the market for these products,” Warner said in a letter to acting FTC Chairwoman Maureen Ohlhausen at the time.

But nothing, yet, has changed, and now a coalition of privacy and other organizations is asking the government to set standards and crack down on such devices…..more here