In 2017 Germany's Federal Network Agency banned the Cayla doll as an illegal surveillance device and urged parents to destroy any such dolls in their possession. In the US the FTC had yet to take any action against the doll or Genesis Toys. Meanwhile, the connected dollhouse prepares our children and families for the connected room (a project that Mattel announced in January 2017 and then nine months later shelved amid an uproar from parents and privacy advocates), which paves the way for the connected home, whose purveyors hope will numb us to the connected world as we travel the path of ubiquity's manifest destiny and its promise of surveillance revenues.

Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Cap…, loc. 834