Neon Goes Dark After Exposing Users' Phone Numbers, Call Recordings, Transcripts

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By BeauHDSep 25, 2025, 7:20 pm668 ptsHotTop
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: 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 since its launch last week. The app already has thousands of…

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