BARBIECAM IS WATCHING YOU MASTURBATE
Nov. 8th, 2010 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
defrogITEM: Mattel releases Barbie Video Girl, a Barbie doll with a working embedded digital camera.
The doll, which retails for about $110, has a small LCD screen in her back and the capacity to record 30 minutes of video, which can be transferred to a PC.
Privacy advocates and – strangely – child psychologists are unamused, worried that kids will use them to post all kinds of embarrassing stuff on the YouTubes.
You know, the way they don’t do now with cameraphones.
The handwringing is a little overblown, but we are entering an age where almost anything can be fitted with video and communications equipment. Which should make the New Era Of Paranoia even more fun.
Hidden cameras,
This is dF
The doll, which retails for about $110, has a small LCD screen in her back and the capacity to record 30 minutes of video, which can be transferred to a PC.
Privacy advocates and – strangely – child psychologists are unamused, worried that kids will use them to post all kinds of embarrassing stuff on the YouTubes.
A clinical psychologist, Sally-Anne McCormack, said the doll had the potential to be used unwisely online and called on parents to boycott the product. ''Essentially, it's a hidden camera,'' the mother of four said. ''Children don't look at video clips the way that adults do, and there might be inappropriate shots that they upload onto YouTube.''
You know, the way they don’t do now with cameraphones.
The handwringing is a little overblown, but we are entering an age where almost anything can be fitted with video and communications equipment. Which should make the New Era Of Paranoia even more fun.
Hidden cameras,
This is dF
