Your phone might be listening to you right now, and not just through Siri. At least seven apps have been caught secretly recording calls, activating microphones, or tracking locations without any ...

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 ...

Call recording on Android is a finicky thing. It worked fine for many years. Google turned the feature off, then back on again, and finally off for good in May 2022. Thanks to years of workarounds, ...

In September, the Neon app briefly became a sensation on app download charts by promising to pay users for recording and sharing their phone calls. Then it abruptly went offline amid controversy over ...

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