Dali Smart Lamp raises privacy concerns
A desk lamp for school children equipped with cameras, posture recognition, and full-screen advertising raised concerns about surveillance and privacy. Developed by TikTok owner Bytedance, the Dali Smart Lamp is equipped an AI-powered digital assistant to help with vocabulary and math problems, and with two surveillance cameras - one mounted on the front and one on the top - to help parents keep an eye on their kids while they're doing homework. The lamp can be connect to a parent's smartphone, with the cameras allowing parents to see both their child's face and their homework while video chatting. A more expensive version of the lamp is able to recognise when children slouch, automatically sending alerts to their parents. While the Dali Smart Lamp is said to have sold well amongst Chinese consumers, it has also been described as 'weird' and 'creepy', particularly in western countries where the monitoring of schools kids and parental oversight of children tends to be less overt and intrusive. System 🤖 Dali Smart Lamp 🔗 Operator: Bytedance/Beijing Kongming Technology Developer: Bytedance Country: China Sector: Consumer goods Purpose: Increase learning efficiency Technology: Posture detection/recognition; Deep learning; Neural network; Machine learning Issue: Privacy; Surveillance
- Date it happened
- 2021-01-01
- Organisation involved
- Beijing Kongming Technology
- Product, system or model
- Dali Smart Lamp
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