A $30 kids' smartwatch let a stranger track, photograph, and listen to the person wearing it

Security researchers hijacked a kids' GPS smartwatch that sells for under $30 and used it to follow a WIRED reporter through New York — remotely firing the watch's camera to photograph him in the elevator and at his desk, and switching on the microphone to eavesdrop on his conversations, with nothing ever showing on the watch face. After analyzing more than 70 GPS tracking devices, they found that watches sold under many different brand names all funnel into a small handful of Shenzhen backend platforms — so one flaw exposes millions of families at once. Attackers could also spoof the child's location, replace emergency contacts, and send fake messages that look like they came from a parent.