{"id":73846,"date":"2017-11-18T06:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T14:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/german-regulators-ban-smartwatches-for-kids-urge-parents-to-destroy-them"},"modified":"2017-11-18T06:23:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T14:23:24","slug":"german-regulators-ban-smartwatches-for-kids-urge-parents-to-destroy-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/11\/german-regulators-ban-smartwatches-for-kids-urge-parents-to-destroy-them","title":{"rendered":"German Regulators Ban Smartwatches for Kids, Urge Parents to Destroy Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/german-regulators-ban-smartwatches-for-kids-urge-parents-to-destroy-them.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There is almost no privacy anymore.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Saying the technology more closely resembles a \u201cspying device\u201d than a toy, Germany regulators have banned the sale of smartwatches designed for kids, urging the parents who were dumb enough to buy them in the first place to destroy them.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiELKR2TW1CAmJ4mBFsJnaIK0qFQgEKg0IACoGCAowlIECMLBMMJ-mHg\">https:\/\/newsstand.google.com\/articles\/CAIiELKR2TW1CAmJ4mBFsJ...MLBMMJ-mHg<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is almost no privacy anymore. Saying the technology more closely resembles a \u201cspying device\u201d than a toy, Germany regulators have banned the sale of smartwatches designed for kids, urging the parents who were dumb enough to buy them in the first place to destroy them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}