{"id":6842,"date":"2017-11-21T05:34:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T13:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=6842"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:12:22","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:12:22","slug":"germany-dealing-childrens-surveillance-watches-right-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/germany-dealing-childrens-surveillance-watches-right-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany is dealing with children&#8217;s surveillance watches in the right way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet of things comes with all kinds of privacy worries, and one country in particular is keen to address them. Having earlier this year banned an internet-connected talking doll for its lack of proper security, Germany\u2019s <em>Bundesnetzagentur<\/em> (Federal Network Agency, or BNA), has now turned its attention to smartwatches that are marketed for use by children.<\/p>\n<p>The problem here isn\u2019t so much a fear of hackers \u2013 it\u2019s the things that parents are doing with these smartwatches. Not only are they listening to their kids as they go about their daily lives; they\u2019re also using the kid-borne gadgets to listen to what their teachers are saying. And in a country that takes privacy very seriously, that\u2019s a no-go.<\/p>\n<p>As BNA president Jochen Homann put it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThrough an app, parents can use children\u2019s watches to listen to the child\u2019s environment without being noticed. According to our research, watches given by parents are for example used to listen to teachers in class.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The watches have SIM cards and can be programmed to quietly call a certain phone number. Silent monitoring is prohibited in Germany, the BNA said. So, as with My Friend Cayla the doll, the agency said people should destroy the watches \u2013 parents were told to \u201ckeep records of destruction\u201d and schools were advised to \u201cpay more attention\u201d to this surveillance phenomenon.<\/p>\n<p>The BNA also said it has \u201ctaken action\u201d against several offers of such devices on the internet. The watches were typically marketed as suitable for children between the ages of 5 and 12, it said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a shocking lack of regulation of the \u2018internet of things,\u2019 which allows lax manufacturers to sell us dangerously insecure smart products,\u201d Pen Test Partners security expert Ken Munro told the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-42030109\">BBC<\/a>. \u201cUsing privacy regulation to ban such devices is a game-changer, stopping these manufacturers playing fast and loose with our kids\u2019 security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Only a month ago, the Norwegian Consumer Council was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbrukerradet.no\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/watchout-rapport-october-2017.pdf\">warning about the dangers of kids\u2019 smartwatches<\/a>, only this time the focus was also on their terrible security.<\/p>\n<p>The Norwegian agency commissioned IT security firm Mnemonic to provide a technical report on four smartwatches sold in the country. Three of them had critical security flaws, two of which would allow a potential attacker to hijack the apps on the device, \u201cthus gaining access to children\u2019s real-time and historical location and personal details, as well as even enabling them to contact the children directly, all without the parents\u2019 knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2019s the matter of the devices sending personal data to North American and East Asian servers without encryption. And, the Norwegian Consumer Council noted, there\u2019s this phenomenon of watches that can be used as silent environmental bugs.<\/p>\n<p>As the council said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDevices that use the Internet to allow real-time location tracking of, and direct communication with, young children, and which store names, photos and continuous and historic geolocation data, should have strong safeguards in place. This entails not only a high level of security to avoid unwanted access, but also a robust framework to ensure that data protection laws and the privacy rights of children are respected and upheld. Three out of the four watches that were analyzed fall short in both respects.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It\u2019s all very reminiscent of security researcher Troy Hunt\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/what-would-it-look-like-if-we-put-warnings-on-iot-devices-like-we-do-cigarette-packets\/\">recent post<\/a> about what warning labels on internet of things devices might look like \u2013 in particular, the one about the CloudPets app-connected toys that <em>should have<\/em> notified consumers: \u201cThis is a listening device for children. You acknowledge and agree that your child\u2019s intimate voice recordings may be placed in an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket and the Mondo DB behind the app may be publicly facing without a password.\u201d Very witty, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troyhunt.com\/data-from-connected-cloudpets-teddy-bears-leaked-and-ransomed-exposing-kids-voice-messages\/\">totally true<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But when it comes to internet of things devices for children, there is perhaps a moral element to this story too. Leaving aside the security problems and the illegality of bugging kids, parents should not be raising their offspring to see constant surveillance as part of everyday life. Privacy is something that should be nurtured and protected, in the fact of continuous assaults from other aspects of our modern world. We should not be normalizing surveillance.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, when a place has strong privacy principles, as is the case not only in Germany but across the EU, the law provides the means for regulators to keep a check on these fast-evolving markets. It is good to see them upholding those principles in a way that could help protect the next generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet of things comes with all kinds of privacy worries, and one country in particular is keen to address them. Having earlier this year banned an internet-connected talking doll for its lack of proper security, Germany\u2019s Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency, or BNA), has now turned its attention to smartwatches that are marketed for use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/germany-dealing-childrens-surveillance-watches-right-way\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Germany is dealing with children&#8217;s surveillance watches in the right way&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":true,"_modified_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1941],"tags":[708,247,147],"class_list":["post-6842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-surveillance","tag-children-surveillance","tag-germany","tag-internet-of-things"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Germany is dealing with children&#039;s surveillance watches in the right way<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The internet of things comes with all kinds of privacy worries, and one country in particular is keen to address them. 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