Neon, the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells data to AI firms

Neon, described as the No. 2 social app on the Apple App Store, pays users to record their phone calls and sells the data to AI firms, according to DataBreaches[.]Net. The app’s pricing on Neon Mobile’s own site offers 30p per minute when you call other Neon users and up to £30 per day for calls to anyone else, with referrals also paying. It first ranked No. 476 in the U.S. App Store’s Social Networking category on 18 September, climbing to No. 10 by the end of the following day, and was reported as No.

2 on the iPhone top free charts for social apps on Wednesday. Neon has been reported to be leaking data; but according to TechCrunch, Neon went offline after a security flaw allowed access to phone numbers, call recordings and transcripts. TechCrunch also notes the app’s founder, Alex Kiam, took down the servers and paused the app, while notifying users.