“Neon – Money Talks” was the fourth meist -installed application on Iphones in the USA last week, before Google and WhatsApp. That was solely due to the money: Neon records telephone calls with the help of the app and releases 15 US cents per minute. According to the operator, the recordings would then be resold for training of artificial intelligencies, adjusted for personal data. In the meantime, Neon has been offline because the recordings including transcripts and user identities have all landed freely on the net.
This is expressly not a violation of the contractual conditions in which the operating company Neon Mobile, Inc., under other ways, takes out to perform all recordings publicly, to provide public calls and create derived works. But it is a violation of your own business model: operators of large AI companies have no scruples to use the Internet without a license to foreign works. If the neon recordings are free on the Internet, such people have no incentive to pay for it. NEON MOBILE could not release this.
The problem techcrunch uncovered At a short test of the app. It was enough to install the app to gain access to the entire cloud memory of all participants. When the recordings are transferred, their transcribed text and the URL of the sound file were apparently transferred in plain language, which each user of the app could read with a network sniffer. If you knew the URL, you could access it with every web browser without password protection.
By slightly changing the web address, Techcrunch was able to call up the recent recordings of all neon participants. Even the metadata including the telephone numbers and amounts involved were freely available. The journalists informed neon founder Alex Kiam, who then took his servers offline. “We temporarily take the app offline to collect additional security levels,” he told its users. He did not point out the disclosure of your data and recordings.
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In order not to violate legal listening bans, according to its own description, Neon only takes up the local tone from the cell phone itself, not the tone of the conversation partner at the other end of the line. Only if both interlocutors are neon participants will Neon Mobile receive the full phone call. Because this is significantly more meaningful, each of the participants then wave 30 cents per minute.
The app is still listed in the US app stores both Apple’s and Googlees. The contractual clauses of Neons are a legal mine field for participants.
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