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
We havent seen for quite some time i can deal with two, three, i dont know eight if it is going up for the right reason it has been good so far there is a lot of floating rate stuff around tensions in hong kong escalating overnight. A flash mob. More than 1,000 people wearing office clothes and face masks blocked roads in the Central District as police fired tear gas as well as at two University Campuses carrie lam said that the protesters are selfish well continue to monitor the updates as they come in. Thats after yesterday when she said they are her enemy. Enemy of the people i think i am as a member of the media. Although not comfort as a member of the Mainstream Media. Am i really part of the Mainstream Media yes hello. An update now on the controversy over the apple card. Goldman sachs denies gender bias but says it will reevaluate those who received lower credits lines to begin with. It may be because existing cards could be combined with a spouses account leading to lower avail
Looking day in the bay area as we look at a live picture of the bay bridge and San Francisco bay. I tell you what, business is booming now. I would say mike and gossia, backup generators right. Are probably flying off the shelves, because we might have power shut off this week. We havent taken that step. We have a number of shut offs at our house. We have flashlights at the ready, charging our batteries, filling up the gas tank, buying the ice after work. We were knowledge the hundreds of thousands we knew it was going to be extended. We had 48 hours the last time around last month. Its going into a 3rd day. This time around its not expected to be that long. Im not getting the generator. I do have friends who say, no way. Were going to get them. Well, they are flying off the store shelves, because there might be another majored planned power shut off coming. The National Weather service has issued a red flag warning for several parts of the bay area. It begins early tomorrow morning. B
In less than three months left before primary voting begins and wealthy donors are grumbling as a current democrat prospects of how dramatically could this reshape the whole president ial race . This is bulls bears and im david asman joining me on the panel feathers and moraga gary smith and john burnett. Joe biden telling reporters earlier today hes not worried about bloomberg entering the race calling the former mayor a solid guy but Bernie Sanders Elizabeth Warren is wasting no time slamming the new york city mayor. Sanders fired off a fundraising email saying america doesnt need another alien or using his wealth again in his words to buy an election and Elizabeth Warren doubling down on the message. Listen. I dont think big money ought to be able to buy our actions and thats true whether we are talking about leaners for Corporate Executives defund packs or big lobbyists. We need a government that works for the people. David if lindbergh designs hes running how much does this change