My Friend Cayla/Trivia

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 * Banned in Germany: German authorities banned the doll as they deem it to be an "illegal surveillance device", allowing insecure connections within a ten-meter radius and can eavesdrop on unwitting children for less-than-savoury purposes. While the doll could be played "offline" like any other doll, i.e. without powering on its online speech abilities, the authorities were (understandably) paranoid enough to advise parents to outright destroy or at least throw the doll in the bin as if it were Chucky, or otherwise face a $26,500 fine if they fail to dispose of it. One German mum who couldn't bear the thought of obliterating her daughter's Cayla instead donated the doll to the German Spy Museum in Berlin, where she is displayed alongside the Nazi-era Enigma machine and various Cold War spy gadgets.
 * Genre Killer: This along with other high-profile toy hacking incidents such as the CloudPets data breach more or less soured the reputation of internet-connected toys and killed off any market opportunity for it, though some parents apparently remain oblivious to the fact that such toys pose a risk to their children.


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