Makes their company ceo. Their company so unit. So unique. Silicon valley is listening to your most intimate moments. It is the focus of bloomberg businessweeks indepth piece on how the Smart Speaker praise users vulnerable to the conversations being transcribed. Here with the story including the devices and use of contractors to transcribe those attimate conversations is m in seattle, sarah from San Francisco, and austin from new york. Let me start with you come austin. The management with you, austin. We spoke to dozens of transcribers and contractors in the stories. Everywhere from ireland to india. They really had ethical quandaries with the service, they were eavesdropping on a lot customers toexa improve speech recognition capabilities. Is really fascinating thing the profound disparity you mentioned. A lot of the contractors felt this was ethically dubious. The Silicon Valley folks that we talked to really did not think this was such an issue at all despite years of privacy issu
And a scathing report prominent shortseller andrew left of citron slaps a 5 price target on peloton. Well hear from left. But first, to our top story. Silicon valley is listening to your most intimate moments. It is the focus of bloomberg businessweeks indepth piece on how the Smart Speaker craze left users vulnerable to their conversations being transcribed. It was one of the most read stories on the terminal on wednesday. And here with the story, including the devices and use of contractors to transcribe those intimate conversations, is matt in seattle, sarah from San Francisco, and garrett and austin in new york. Let me start with you, austin. Contractors in your story seem to have a problem with this, while the management of big tech didnt. Why . We spoke to dozens of transcribers and contractors in the story, everywhere from ireland to india. They really had ethical quandaries with the service. They were eavesdropping on a lot of siri or alexa customers in order to improve the sys
Lisa and in the meantime, preparing for that washington d. C. Ceremony for july 4. David and if you dont want to watch that, you can watch the boston pops. Lisa right now we have a rather muted tone in markets. Nasdaq futures indicated slightly lower. In europe, a little bit of a gain. The euro gaining over the dollar. Cave on the part of italian leaders to European Union leaders on the part of their budget. David leaders getting something done. Lisa maybe. For now. David we are joined by lananh n guyen and michael mckee. Even as we are speaking, we have European Union Leadership Meeting once again in brussels. Michael well, they are supposed to start meeting, but they may be watching our show. Lisa but slightly. [laughter] michael they are struggling to come up with a compromise. Germans and french seem to be working well with the dutch to come up with leadership for the various commissioned posts, but the italians and others in the periphery havent cooperated. They dont want to just
Board. We are looking forward to it heading up the eastern seaboard as a category four storm with wind of 130140. Just off shore florida toward the carolinas, and then potentially up toward new england. Anywhere in this large area is where we think this storm is going to go. Its a lot of real estate. It could pass south, overhead, or to the west, all offering different kin or showers from a nearby cold front. The orange line, heavy rain and wind. If it takes a track through the midatlantic, it would be a slightly weaker storm, but we would get plenty of rain and wind as well. We will have the latest track of the storm in the forecast for the rest of the week coming up. Ed the hurricane is leaving behind a mess in haiti. Lots of people in Massachusetts Team coverage wit continues with rhondella richardson. Rhondella this is a Community Center for brocktons nearly 15,000 haitians that come to the store and are frantic to transfer money. Its where they put minutes on phone cards they just
[captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] ed good morning. Im ed harding along with newscenter 5s political reporter janet wu. Our october countdown tonight at 9 00 p. M. The second president ial debate. And there are now 37 days until election day. Our guest this morning, congressman mike capuano of the seventh district. The congressman does not have a challenger this november so he will go back to work. Today is sunday, you have brady at 1 00 4 30, and the president ial debate at 9 00. In the mike capuano world, rank them, 1, 2, 3 . Mike you have to go with the sox because it is a playoffs. I expect them to win, but if they lose one more, they can still get into the playoffs. Janet are you telling us that the politics may be more important tomorrow depending on what happens tomorrow night. Im on the way to help out a potential colleague in New Hampshire so i will be listening to some of it