1、CRS INSIGHT Prepared for Members and Committees of Congress Legal SidebarLegal Sidebari i Smart Toys and the Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 January 8, 2018 A growing number of devices in American households, including televisions, appliances, security systems, and heating and coolin
2、g devices, rely on Internet connectivity to perform a range of functions. And the “Internet of Things” includes a growing number of products primarily used by children, including “smart toys.” In the 1980s, the popular Teddy Ruxpin bear “talked” to children by way of a tape player hidden inside. Tod
3、ay, children may have real-time two-way “conversations” with their smart toys. Sensors, mics, cameras, storage devices, speech recognition technology, Internet-connectivity, and GPS are used to tailor the toys behaviors based on the childs interactions. Some more sophisticated smart toys may record
4、a childs voice on an audio file, convert the audio to text, query a searchable database, and return an appropriate voice response back to the child. But smart toys use of Internet-connectivity potentially to collect childrens personal information may require the toys makers to take certain steps to
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