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Hello Barbie's critics using Mattel doll to wage privacy fight

2015-03-29 01:19:45| Toys - Topix.net

Mattel's Hello Barbie, a new doll that can hold Siri-like conversations with kids, was meant to help spur a turnaround for the company. Instead, it's drawn the ire of one of the toy industry's most influential critics.

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Hello Barbie's Critics Say Talking Doll Is a Privacy Threat

2015-03-25 07:19:47| Toys - Topix.net

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the world. Hello Barbie is displayed at the Mattel showroom at the North American International Toy Fair, on Saturday, Feb. 14, in New York.

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Ubiquitous doll is now an information-gathering device Barbie the Spy

2015-03-15 15:10:07| Toys - Topix.net

One is surveillance, about which we've written often on this site. The other is the Barbie doll: the ubiquitous toy that has for decades molded girls' concept of "the perfect female" as having an impossible-to-achieve figure derived from sexist fantasy and has taught them that their lives should be about dressing up and attracting the attention of a boring male named "Ken".

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