The "artifact" of children's telephone watches has swept the parents circle in recent years. As of February 2019, the number of users of children's smart watch APP has reached 46.3 million.
Today's children's telephone watches have powerful hardware and intimate functions, which can achieve real-time positioning, high-definition dual camera, face recognition, video calls and other functions. Children find it convenient and fun, and parents can always keep track of their children's whereabouts. However, it cannot be ignored that children's smart watches may also have hidden dangers.
Recently, Ms. Liang in Hubei reflected that the service public account bound to the brand of children's telephone watches she bought for her children pushed an explicit gender topic article with the title, and Ms. Liang expressed concern about it: "Now children are very precocious, and these articles will have a great impact on their bodies and minds. ”
According to reports, at present, the three WeChat public accounts involved in the incident have all issued apology letters, saying that they "forwarded the article due to mistakes."
After the relevant news was reported by the media, it caused public dissatisfaction: First, the children's telephone watch service public account pushed the article on the topic of gender relations, which was questioned by netizens for marketing in playing pornography.
Secondly, although the brand of the children's phone watch involved said that the article would not be displayed in the children's phone watch, the relevant push content was not suitable for children to read, and there was already a positioning that violated the service of children.
In addition, users who are so vertical and huge public accounts have repeatedly published explicit gender articles, and only explained a sentence "forwarded by mistake" afterwards, and their breezy response attitude once again aroused public anger.
Previously, there have been media reports on cases involving pornography in education apps, and some online course platforms and education apps have problems such as vulgar video links and harmful information. Although repeated crackdowns, the phenomenon of spreading vulgar content under the guise of education is still worth vigilance.
Not only that, some low-end versions of children's telephone watches are selling well on major e-commerce platforms, and information security is not guaranteed. This year's 3.15 evening party exposed the information security problem of children's smart watches.
The tester purchased a children's telephone watch and gave it to a child to wear. At the same time, the download QR code of a malicious program was disguised as a lottery game and pasted on the doorstep of the child's home.
Such a lottery game is easy to attract children to scan the code experience. In this way, malicious programs can easily enter the child's phone watch.
At the same time, engineers have achieved remote control of the watch.
Every time the child draws a lottery, the malicious program automatically packages the important information in the watch, such as location, address book, call history, etc., and sends it out in real time.
After playing the lottery game, the child goes downstairs to play, the engineer can still locate in real time, collect the child's movement trajectory uninterruptedly, and easily circle the child's range of activities.
The tester deduced from the background that her home was actually very close to her school, about two or three hundred meters, and could be walked in 5 minutes by collecting the child's location information many times.
When he got home, the child chatted with his grandmother. By invoking the microphone in the watch, the engineer in the other place knew exactly what was going on.
After meals, children do handicrafts at their desks. Your child's every move is also under control at all times.
On such a low version of a children's phone watch, after various apps are installed, they can take away a variety of sensitive permissions such as positioning, contacts, microphones, cameras, etc. without user authorization. This means that they can easily access private information such as children's location, face images, and recordings.
In response to the problems exposed by children's telephone watches, there is a view that first of all, we should promote the awakening of the entire industry, and it should be understood that products and services for minors, trying to use soft pornography as a marketing gimmick; secondly, the quality of children's telephone watches is the top priority, and the brand side should also have a sense of control, considering the social controversies it may cause and conflicts with brand image.
At present, the use of electronic devices is getting younger and younger, and the so-called "smart guardian platform" of children's telephone watches has been repeatedly lost, and the light is boycotted by parents, and the heavy will be removed from the shelves or even investigated for legal responsibility. The bottom line and premise of children's electronic devices such as quality and safety, content control, and privacy protection must be developed with the industry.
Therefore, when parents choose children's phone watches for their children, it is best to buy a high-grade latest version to avoid the invasion of children's privacy to the greatest extent. In addition, it is recommended that parents choose large brand products with good reputation, the quality is guaranteed, and once there is a quality problem, there are places to carry out after-sales maintenance and enjoy three guarantees of service.
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