Spyware for Babies
AI-powered baby monitors like Nanit, which raised $50 million, collect extensive infant data, raising privacy and surveillance concerns.
A New York Times report covered by Schneier on Security describes how baby-monitoring companies such as Nanit are expanding AI-based 24/7 health tracking of infants. Nanit recently raised $50 million to add tracking of speech and language development and motor skills via its camera, while extending its bedroom presence into early adolescence. The post highlights the already extensive level of baby data collection and its expected growth.
- Nanit raised $50 million to expand AI health tracking for babies
- Cameras will track speech, language development, and motor skills
- Surveillance intended to extend from infancy into early adolescence
- Vendors
- Nanit
- Products
- Nanit camera
- Organizations
- The New York Times
From the original article
1 min read at schneier.comThe New York Times has a long article ( alt link ) on surveillance systems aimed at babies. They are increasingly using AI. Nanit and its rivals want to own 24/7 health tracking for the sub-four-foot set.
By Bruce Schneier · schneier.com
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