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Whoops: ‘AI’ Toy Company Leaks Chat Logs, Personal Data Of 50,000 Toddlers (www.techdirt.com)
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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 17 points 1 week ago

Bondu’s web-based portal, ..., also let anyone with a Gmail account access transcripts of virtually every conversation Bondu’s child users have ever had with the toy.”

In this case, the included exposed data included kids’ names, birth dates, family member names, and even the detailed summaries and transcripts of every previous chat between the child and their Bondu stuffed animals.

Anyone with a Gmail account knowing who lives where with whom? Ya, super unproblematic in the times of Adolf Trump and his SS ICE.