Beings such as EMO Pet Robot, Anki’s Cosmo and Vector, Elik, PlantsIO… I wonder if they have spyware.

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    you mean the things with cameras and microphones that are designed for children and offload all computation to data centers in china?

    if they don’t now, they 100% will.

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    If it was provided an internet connection during set up or has a companion app on your phone, yes.

    Anything with a camera or microphone is safe, until it is networked. After that there are multiple routes to exfiltrate data or update the device so it starts doing so on its own.

    Even if it does not get wifi, but you have to interact with the device through an app, your phone just does the heavy lifiting then.

    This is the reason for most people who are concerned about privacy and the trends of increased data collection, cheap IOT devices are verboten.