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Comment by linker3000

Yep. My comment was more along the lines of 'connectivity can be fun/useful, but sometimes there's a privacy trade-off'.

I'd consider myself 'aware' rather than 'paranoid', but if we extrapolate for a minute....Some function or app on the phone (or distant cloud service) can recognise the MAC address of the Fisher price phone's bluetooth PHY and, coupled with GPS info, we have a location where there's possibly a young child (or an older one in their home office!). Maybe, worse case, your targeted ads contain more children's toys.

parent linker3000 5 years ago

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