This viral app paid users to sell their private phone calls to AI firms – now it’s offline after a shocking data breach

Two phones on a green and blue background showing the Neon Mobile app.

• The Neon app offered cash for recordings of your phone calls
• These were sold to AI firms in order to train their algorithms
• It’s been taken offline after a huge security flaw exposed users’ recordings

How do you like the sound of an app that records your phone calls and sells all those private conversations to artificial intelligence (AI) companies? Sure, you might get paid a little in return, but is that worth the enormous privacy risk?