Call-recording app Neon, which became the #2 social app on the US App Store, goes dark after exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and transcripts
A viral app called Neon, which offers to record your phone calls and pay you for the audio so it can sell that data to AI companies …
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Discussion
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@caominhweb3
@caominhweb3
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@TechCrunch top ranked → zero trust in 1 bug
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@sandeepssrin
Sandeep Srinivasa
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Humanity's last use case is to generate training data. “the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms” https://techcrunch.com/...
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@wesrothmoney
Wes Roth
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Neon Mobile, now the No. 2 free social-networking app on the U.S. App Store, pays users $0.30 per recorded call minute (capped at $30/day) and then sells the audio to AI firms. Neon claims it only captures the caller's side unless both parties use the app, but its terms grant a …
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@zackwhittaker.com
Zack Whittaker
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ICYMI: A viral app called Neon, which pays you to record your phone calls so your audio can be used to train AI, has gone offline after I discovered a security lapse that allowed any user to access the phone numbers, call recordings, and call transcriptions of any other user.
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@shiraovide
Shira Ovide
on bluesky
This, and the similar Tea data leak, is a reminder that just because it's in an official app store, doesn't mean an app is good or secure. — techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/v...
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@katienotopoulos
Katie Notopoulos
on bluesky
The solution to the male lonliness epidemic is getting men to call each other on the phone so they can sell their voices/speech for AI training techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/n...
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@joetidy
@joetidy
on bluesky
Said it before, I'll say it agin - the younger you are the less you care about data privacy... techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/n...
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@zackwhittaker@mastodon.social
Zack Whittaker
on mastodon
ICYMI: A viral app called Neon, which pays you to record your phone calls so your audio can be used to train AI, has gone offline after I discovered a security lapse exposing users' phone numbers, call recordings, and call transcriptions. — Anyone could download users' raw audi…
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@davemark@mastodon.social
Dave Mark
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“Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms” — 30 cents a minute ($18/hr) when you speak with other Neon users. Referral fees as well. — Feels like we lost the thread, somehow. But better than using p…
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@skry@mastodon.social
@skry@mastodon.social
on mastodon
There's no such thing as anonymous personal data. Especially not when it's the story of your life as recorded in your phone conversations. — AIs can make voices that sound exactly like you with a tiny sample of your recorded voice. That capability can make it possible for cri…