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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 (finance.yahoo.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by solrize@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] akilou@sh.itjust.works 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is illegal in a lot of states

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

It only records your audio unless you are both consenting members… so no, not illegal at all.

Neon’s marketing claims to only record your side of the call unless it’s with another Neon user.

[–] itztalal 6 points 2 weeks ago

Interesting.

I wonder if we can set it up so 2 AIs talk to each other and we collect the money.

[–] vane@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe because more people have mobile phone than toilets. You can sell your voice while taking dump on the street.

[–] zeux@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

I mean, they wanted to share the data with other companies, so it kind of works as suggested, but I think they didn't like the part of not getting paid to share it with the whole world. https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/25/viral-call-recording-app-neon-goes-dark-after-exposing-users-phone-numbers-call-recordings-and-transcripts/

[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

At least people are getting paid somewhat for their data, instead of just being "compenstated" with access to a service of dubious quality

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 weeks ago

ONE participant of the phone call is getting paid. It's unclear if the other one is even being informed. Anyway apparently the app shut down today because of a huge data leak, but I haven't looked into the details.

[–] Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago

So at least they're being honest about it and give kickbacks?

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Don't LLM have enough language samples already? Not like a (one-sided) phone call helps them less making things up.