This holiday shopping season, millions of parents will consider purchasing “smart” toys for their children. These “connected toys” – toys that are connected to the Internet – offer many promising applications, including the potential to assist in the overall education and cognitive development of children. The personally identifiable information (PII) collected by these connected toys, however, also raises serious privacy and data security concerns. These concerns are magnified when the data at issue is sensitive children’s information. To learn more, please click here.