The sites that data brokers sell your information to aren't doing anything technically illegal. They're aggregating public records—voter registrations, property records, court documents—and repackaging them for profit.
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The bottom line is that smart toys open a digital door into children's playtime, bedroom and hearts. And if you're thinking about opening that door, my advice to you would be to take a very careful look at what's on the other side.
TED
Data that law enforcement would require a warrant to collect if they did it directly, they now can just go buy for a few dollars from private companies with no court order and no probable cause. The surveillance allows them to circumvent the protections that we have written into law.
TED
attempts to police access through clumsy age verification systems and facial recognition will just upskill teenagers in VPNs, masking technologies and hacking techniques, producing a more sophisticated generation of young cyber intruders
Peter Griffin — The Business of Tech