Maybe Wanna Strike This Doll From Your Christmas List

These Dolls May Be Spying On And Recording Your Children
Elyse Wanshel | Huffington Post

"On Dec. 6, a coalition of international consumer watchdog groups filed a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission. The complaint alleges that the dolls My Friend Cayla and i-Que Intelligent Robot, which use speech-recognition software to have conversations with kids, are using this technology to record their personal information...

The complaint claims that the dolls send the data to a separate company, Nuance Communications, which saves the recordings for future use. It also notes that Nuance, which also makes the dolls’ software, has contracts with military and law enforcement agencies."

It seems these days you can't be over paranoid