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
Fans of the frankfurt books and know that anything could be a message in disguise and that dan brown may be the man behind it. I got warts and animals all these topics are coming up and all around events in europe here is todays you know max express. These works have been donated by renowned contemporary artists for a benefit auction. The proceeds not to go to the one hundred fifty eight families who survived the Grenfell Tower inferno in london last june and. Among the most valuable pieces is fi schwimmer one nine three by german photographer volved gang tillmans the auction on monday at southern bees in london is expected to raise more than one million euros. Contraband of art from the Hamburg Media School has won the golden Student Academy award in hollywood for the short film she made in kenya what to watch are all of us young german filmmakers have been on a winning streak in hollywood in recent years your highness poise from the film academy impressed this years jury with his doc
Foreign nationals to donate to american political races. Mcauliffe says the chinese billionaire had a green card. Fbi and u. S. Department of justice also examining if there is overlap while mcauliffe was at the Clinton Foundation. Now on the clinton connection, heres mcauliffes comments. I think we travel the same circles. I have traveled the globe with president clinton and we have a lot of the same friends. Those that give to the Clinton Foundation have been friends of mine years and years. We friendship together. Deirdre one thing we want to clearly note, there is no allegation that the Clinton Foundation did anything improper according to officials. This probe focuses on mcauliffe and campaign donations. My guest has done a lot of research on the subject. He is the author of clinton cash. He is senior editoratlarge at breitbart news. Peter schweitzer with me now. Welcome, peter, were glad youre here. You led an explosive investigation into the foundation. What was the Biggest Surp
Is so upset about the theft. And retracting weather and traffic. Lets start with america and the weather center. The morning. Erica good morning to you. Temperatures right now and the upper forties. Heading into the afternoon we will see sixties to mid 70s inland. Slightly warmer conditions as we head into the weekend. Of the highlighting the 7 day around the bay forecast coming up in just a couple of minutes. Heres the george. George things are still quiet and the traffic center. As we look around the bay first at the bay bridge westbound we see again for the second day in a row, very light conditions for the 7 00 hour. The metering lights are active but theyre just a short wait at the bay bridge. But the san mateo bridge we are problem free across the span and the Golden Gate Bridge continues to be a problem free care for the assault found ride for marin county print darya no one wants to think about the commute tomorrow if bart workers strike. We will know at midnight if theyre able