Editor's note: After yesterday's story was published, TechCrunch received additional information about the Neon app that indicated there had been a security flaw that allowed any user to access the ...
A significant security flaw has resulted in the viral app that paid users to record their phone calls going offline. Credit: time99lek / iStock / Getty Images Plus Less than 24 hours after receiving ...
Get paid to record your phone calls and hand them over to third parties? It may seem a bit dystopian, but this app has quickly risen to the top of the App Store charts. Neon Mobile is a new app for ...
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After coming out of nowhere, a viral new app that pays people to record their phone calls for the purpose of training AI has been yanked offline after a security flaw allegedly exposed user data. Neon ...
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, has rapidly risen to the ranks of the top-five free iPhone apps ...
Neon, a service that pays you for recordings of your phone calls and then sells those to AI companies for training data, seems set to return in the wake of a privacy breach. The app swiftly went viral ...
A new app is paying users to record their phone calls for AI training purposes. Credit: Neon Mobile Get paid to record your phone calls and hand them over to third parties? It may seem a bit dystopian ...