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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 (techcrunch.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by kennedy@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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people are doing this willingly??!!!

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[โ€“] GammaGames@beehaw.org 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Apparently some users were calling people and recording regular background conversations just to get paid. This was discovered because all of the calls were publicly available

[โ€“] hansolo@lemmy.today 4 points 2 weeks ago

So like 20 geniuses, and the rest fools all the way down. Cool.