A new application is provided to record your phone calls and pay you for the sound so that it can sell data to artificial intelligence companies, incredibly, application No. 2 in the Social Network section of Apple US App Store.
The app, Neon MobileIt gives itself as a tool to raise money “hundreds or even thousands of dollars annually” to reach your voice talks.
Neon says on the Internet that the company pays 30 ¢ in the minute when it calls other neon users and up to $ 30 a day the maximum calls to anyone else. The app also pays for referrals. The application was first occupied No. 476 in the social networks category in the United States App Store on September 18, but he jumped to No. 10 at the end of yesterday, according to App Intelligence data Applications.
On Wednesday, Neon was seen second on the best free plans for the iPhone for social applications.
Neon also became the best application or game No. 7 earlier on Wednesday morning and became the number 6.
According to the Nion service terms, the company’s mobile application can capture incoming and external phone calls to users. However, Neon marketing He claims to record your side only from the call unless it is with another Nion user.
This data is sold to “artificial intelligence companies”, and the conditions of Neon in the case of service, “for the purpose of developing, training, testing and improving machine learning models, tools, artificial intelligence systems and relevant technologies.”
The fact that such an application exists and is allowed in the application stores is an indication of the extent of artificial intelligence in the lives of users and their special areas. Meanwhile, it indicates its high ranking within the Apple App Store, evidence that there is now some sub -section of the market ready to exchange its privacy for pennies, regardless of the largest cost of themselves or society.
Despite what the neon privacy policy says, its conditions include a very wide license for its user data, as the neon is given itself:
… all over the world, exclusively, irreversibly, transformable, free, fully paid and licensing (with the right to include through multiple storms) for sale, use, hosting, conversion, public offer, and public performance (including by digital voice transmission), distributing it to this classification, distributing it completely, equipping it completely, equipping it, and preparing it Distributing it completely, distributing it to this classification, and preparing it completely, equipping it and distributing any formats and media and through any media channels, in each case whether they are now known or develop below.
This leaves a lot of Neon’s spaces to do user data more than he claims.
Conditions also include a wide section on beta features, which have no guarantee and may contain all kinds of problems and errors.
Although the application of the neon raises many red flags, it may be technically legal.
“Only one side of the phone call aims to avoid eavesdropping laws,” Jennifer Daniels, partner in the law firm Rome is emptyIt irrigates the privacy, security and data protection group, Techcrunch.
“under [the] “The laws of many countries, you must obtain approval from both parties to a conversation in order to register it … it is an interesting approach,” says Daniels.
Peter Jackson, Cyber Security and Privacy Lawyer in Greenburg Glosker, Agreed-and tells Techcrunch that the language surrounding “one text” looks like a back way to say that Neon records the calls of their entire users, but it may remove what the other party said from the final text.
In addition, legal experts have pointed to concerns about how to not be identified by data.
neon Claims It removes user names, email messages and phone numbers before selling data to artificial intelligence companies. But the company does not say how artificial intelligence partners or others can sell the use of this data. Voice data can be used to make false calls that appear to be coming from you, or artificial intelligence companies can use your voice to make their artificial intelligence sounds.
“Once your voice is there, it can be used for fraud,” Jackson says. “Now this company has your phone number and insufficient information – they have records of your voice, which can be used to create a character for you and do all types of fraud.”
Even if the company itself is worthy of confidence, the neon does not reveal those who are trusted with them or what allows these entities to carry out user data on the road. Neon is also subject to possible data violations, as any company may have valuable data.
In a brief test by Techcrunch, the neon did not provide any indication that he was recording the user call, and he did not warn the call recipient. The application of the application is like any other audio app above the IP, and the caller’s identifier display the inventive phone number, as usual. (We will leave it to security researchers to try to verify other application claims.)
neon founder Alex Kyam You did not answer a comment.
KIAM, which was only identified as “Alex” on the company’s website, runs neon from an apartment in New York, a Business He appears.
A linkin mail KIAM refers to the collection of money from VackFront Ventures a few months ago to start it, but the investor did not respond to an investigation from Techcrunch as of the time of writing this report.
Are AI users canceling the sensitivity of privacy concerns?
There was a time when companies looking to benefit from data collection through mobile phone applications while dealing with this type of object on Sly.
When it was revealed in 2019 Facebook was pushing teenagers to install an application spying on themIt was a scandal. The following year, the main headlines stumbled again when it was discovered that the applicants of the application store Dozens of unpredictable applications apparently run To collect use data around the mobile app. There are regular warnings Beware of VPN applicationsWhich often is not special as they claim. there Even government reports In detail, how to regularly purchase agencies “commercially available” in the market.
Now artificial intelligence agents regularly join meetings to write down notes, and artificial intelligence devices are always on the market. But at least in those cases, everyone agrees to register, tells Daniels Techcrunch.
In light of this wide -ranging use and selling personal data, it is now possible that there will now be satiated enough to believe that if their data is sold anyway, they may benefit from it as well.
Unfortunately, they may share more information than they realize and put the privacy of others when they do so.
Jackson says: “There is a tremendous desire for knowledge workers, and frankly, to make everyone as easy as possible to do your work,” says Jackson. “Some of these productivity tools do this at the expense, clearly, your privacy, but also, increasingly, the privacy of those you interact with on a daily basis.”