Sensor Bricks Entrench Domestic Data

Toy manufacturers are beginning to embed motion, audio and network sensors into ubiquitous play pieces so that the home becomes a continuous data environment for platform services—without screens or obvious apps. Framed as 'complementary' to traditional play, these products can shift expectations about what play is and who owns the resulting behavioral data. — If this becomes widespread, it forces urgent policy choices on children’s privacy, vendor defaults, consent, and what counts as acceptable surveillance in domestic and developmental contexts.