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They're saying it will be wonderful, your paycheck will be fatter, your wallet will be fatter but the reality is people will be spending that money on gas. >> even before we had the most recent spike in prices, people were not noticing the fact they got this tax cut. they're getting a little more money in their paycheck thanks to lower withholding. your hours change, your wages change, at the beginning of the year your health insurance premiums changed. so people weren't feeling that money in their pocket. the fact that they are paying more at the pump may make them frustrated about the fact t...

>> i do not. >> i don't either but i very good friends that have it and these things are freaking them out. alexa recorded a conversation and sent it to people in their e-mail list. what?

Thank goodness it was just about buying new floors. then she called the company to complain. >> he apologized about 15 times in about five minutes. he said thank you for letting us know. this is something we need to fix. i felt like total privacy invasion. i'm never plugging that device in again. i can't trust it. >> this is anyone's worst nightmare. especially in you're busy doing something you don't want others to hear. >> we talk about things in the privacy of our own homes. how did this happen? >> amazon is saying it's a rare series of events where alexa misheard a series of words and sent...

You say "alexa." then it heard words like send message requests and the background conversation was interpreted as a name in the contact list and bam, that audio was sent to that employee. the microphone on these devices is really sensitive and the thinking is is that it heard this background conversation and that perhaps the couple kept the volume down when alexa was responding saying to whom, they didn't hear it. >> whenever you talk to this thing, it records what you're saying. >> when you invite these devices into your home, you are giving up a bit of anonymity. just like do you when you g...

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