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<\/p>\nYear after being blasted for dodgy security, GPS kid tracker biz takes heat again for leaving families’ private info lying around for crims<\/h2>\n
READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n “The mobile application accompanying the watch has unencrypted communications with its backend server and the server enables unauthenticated access to data,” the directive said.<\/p>\n As a result, data on location history, phone numbers and device serial number can be found and changed.<\/p>\n “A malicious user can send commands to any watch making it call another number of his choosing, can communicate with the child wearing the device or locate the child through GPS,” the alert warned.<\/p>\n It ordered public authorities to “recall the product from end users”.<\/p>\n Data protection experts suggested this is the first time the Rapex system has been used for dangerous products related to data protection and privacy. Data protection officer Bernieri Christian, who spotted the alert, described the use of the system \u2013 and the product recall \u2013 as “huge”.<\/p>\n 1\/4 This is huge!! As far as I know, the UE has issued the FIRST Rapid Alert (#RAPEX<\/a>) for dangerous products that may be related to data protection and #Privacy<\/a>. \u2014 Bernieri Christian (@prevenzione) February 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Enox watch is far from the only creepy, leaky kid-tracking smartwatch on the market. In October, security firm Mnemonic and the Norwegian Consumer Council released a report<\/a> that found “significant security flaws, unreliable safety features and a lack of consumer protection” in the models they tested.<\/p>\n Similar issues have been raised about connected toys; last June Amazon stopped<\/a> selling CloudPets toys after privacy advocates raised the alarm about the devices, in which a range of security holes<\/a> had been found.<\/p>\n We’ve asked Enox for comment. \u00ae<\/p>\n\n
This drive me crazy: the product is a smartwatch for MONITORING KIDS (#ENOX<\/a> SAFE KID ONE with GSM and GPS integrated) pic.twitter.com\/huFsSxDrOp<\/a><\/p>\n