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Title    Mozilla Report Ranks Holiday Tech Gifts by Considering Privacy and Security
Date    Friday November 16 2018, @08:14PM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the watch-out-for-who-is-watching-you dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/11/16/1651238

takyon writes:

Mozilla releases privacy report on which holiday gadgets are too creepy

Just in time for the holiday shopping season, Mozilla has released a privacy report on some popular gift options, which tells you if a gadget meets basic security standards like encrypting data and offering a clear privacy policy.

While the list isn't comprehensive, it looked at 70 popular items and found that a little over 25 of them meet Mozilla's minimum security standards. The most secure gadgets: the Nintendo Switch, a Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit that mixes wand magic and teaching kids how to code, and an open-source smart speaker called Mycroft Mark 1.

[...] According to Mozilla, the creepiest gadget out there is the FREDI Baby Monitor, which has a history of easily being hacked and a default password of "123" that you're not prompted to change. The FREDI Baby Monitor also lacks a privacy policy, and its company doesn't push out security updates to its devices.

Also at Engadget.


Original Submission

Links

  1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
  2. "Mozilla releases privacy report on which holiday gadgets are too creepy" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/14/18092136/mozilla-privacy-policies-top-gadgets-holiday-season
  3. "released a privacy report" - https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/
  4. "Mozilla's minimum security standards" - https://medium.com/read-write-participate/minimum-standards-for-tackling-iot-security-70f90b37f2d5
  5. "Harry Potter Kano Coding Kit" - https://www.theverge.com/2018/7/24/17604924/harry-potter-kano-coding-kit-learn-wand-accelerometer-motiono-controls-wizarding
  6. "open-source smart speaker called Mycroft Mark 1" - https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/products/mycroft-mark-1/
  7. "the FREDI Baby Monitor" - https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/products/fredi-baby-monitor/
  8. "Engadget" - https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/14/mozilla-gift-guide-privacy-not-included/
  9. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=30136

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