The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has taken action against a robot toy maker that sold its products in the United States via online retailers such as Amazon for allegedly allowing a third party from China to collect children’s data, the agency said in a Sept. 3 statement.
The company, Apitor Technology Co., based in Shenzhen, China, develops and sells programmable robot toys targeting children ages 6 to 14, according to a Sept. 2 lawsuit filed by the Justice Department in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The app-enabled toys were promoted as educational devices for teaching children coding skills, according to the lawsuit.
