The number 2 app in the social networking section of AIS’s US App Store, which offers a new app to record your phone calls and pay for audio, can sell data to AI companies.
App, Neon mobilePichies itself as a pen making tool offering “hundreds or even thousands of dollars per year” for access to its audio conversations.
Neon’s website says that the company pays 30 ¢ per minute when you call other neon users and call someone else to a maximum of $ 30 by $ 30 per day. The app also pays for referrals. According to data from the Intelligence firm, the app ranked number 476 in the social networking category of the US App Store on 18 September for the first time, but reached number 10 at the end of tomorrow. Appfigures,
On Wednesday, Neon was seen in number 2 position on the top free chart of the iPhone for social apps.
Neon also became the first number 7 top overall app or game on Wednesday morning, and number 6 became the top app.
According to the conditions of Neon’s service, the company’s mobile app can capture the inbounds and outbound phone calls of the users. However, neon Marketing Only claims to record its side of the call until it is with another neon user.
That data is being sold to “AI companies”, the company’s service state terms, “Machine learning models, artificial intelligence tools and systems and related technologies the purpose of development, training, testing and improvement.”
The fact that such an app exists and is allowed on the app store, it is an indication of how far AI has encroached in the lives and areas of users, once private. Meanwhile, its high ranking within the Apple App Store is proof that now there is some market sub -section, which is ready to exchange its privacy for penis, whether it is herself or regardless of the big cost for society.
What Neon’s privacy policy says, despite this, its terms include a very comprehensive license for its user data, where Neon gives themselves:
“… all over the world, exclusive, irreversible, transferable, royalty-free, fully paid, right and license (with the right of sublime through sub-disciplines through many levels) to sell, use, use, store, store, transfer, publicly perform, perform publicly, to perform in public (through a digital audio transmission). Whether it is known or developed after that.
This leaves a lot of vigilance for neon so that it claims with users’ data that it claims.
Conditions also include a broad section on beta features, which have no warranty and can have all types of issues and bugs.
Although Neon’s app raises many red flags, it can be technically legal.
“Recording only one side of phone calls is aimed at avoiding wiretap laws,” Jennifer Daniel, a partner in the law firm Jennifer Daniel Empty Rome Privacy, security and data security group, Techcrunch explains.
“Under the laws of many states, you have to agree to interact with both sides to record it,” says Daniels.
Peter Jackson, Cyber Security and Privacy Attorney Greenburg Glucker, Agreed-and tells Techcrunch that the language around “unilateral tape” seems to be that it may be a previous way to say that neon calls users in its entirety, but only the other side said what the other party said to the final transport.
In addition, legal experts pointed to concerns about how the data could actually be.
Neon Claim This removes users’ names, emails and phone numbers before selling data to AI companies. But the company does not say how AI partners or others sell to use that data. Voice data can be used to make fake calls that they sound like they are coming from you, or AI companies can use your voice to make their AI voice.
“Once your voice ends there, it can be used for fraud,” Jackson says. “Now, this company has your phone number and essentially sufficient information – they have your voice recording, which can be used to make a copy of you and to fraud all types of fraud.”
Even if the company is reliable in itself, Neon does not reveal who its trusted partners are or what those institutions are allowed to do with users’ data below the road. Neon is also subject to potential data violations, as there can be any company with valuable data.
In a brief test by Techcrunch, Neon did not indicate that it was recording the user’s call, nor did it warn the call recipient. The app acted like any other voice-over-IP app, and the caller ID displayed an inbound phone number as usual. (We will leave security researchers to try to verify other claims of the application.)
Neon Founder Alex kim Not returned a request for the comment.
Kiam, known only as “Alex” on the company’s website, operates neon from a new York apartment, A business filing Show.
A linkedin Post Indicates that Kim raised money from the upfront ventures a few months ago for her startup, but the investor did not respond to an inquiry from Techchan as the time of writing.
Has AI desensitized users for privacy concerns?
There was a time when companies handled this type of cheese in search of benefits from data collection through mobile apps.
When it was discovered in 2019 that Facebook was paying a teenager to install an app that spies on him, it was a scam. The following year, the headlines were again discussed when it was discovered that the App Store Analytics providers operated the use of dozens of easy apps to collect data about the mobile app ecosystem. To be careful with VPN apps, regular warnings are given, which are often not as private as they claim. Even government reports are how agencies regularly buy personal data that is “commercially available” on the market.
Now, AI agents regularly join meetings to take notes, and always AI devices are in the market. But at least in those cases, everyone is agreeing to a recording, telling Daniel Tekkachch.
In the light of this broader use and sale of personal data, now there is a possibility that they are sufficient to think that if their data is being sold anyway, they can also benefit from it.
Unfortunately, they can share more information, as they risk others’ privacy and when they do.
Jackson says, “Surely, knowledge workers – and clearly, everyone – has a tremendous desire from – and some of these productivity devices do so that, of course, your privacy, but also, rapid, rapid, with whom you are interacting on day -to -day basis.”
