[HN Gopher] Social app Neon pays users to record their phone cal...
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       Social app Neon pays users to record their phone calls, sells data
       to AI firms
        
       Author : pinewurst
       Score  : 11 points
       Date   : 2025-09-24 20:26 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (finance.yahoo.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (finance.yahoo.com)
        
       | chmod775 wrote:
       | I haven't been this disappointed with my fellow humans in a
       | while.
       | 
       | Maybe the question was never whether people _needed_ fundamental
       | rights, but whether they deserved them.
        
         | observationist wrote:
         | The amazing part is how the competent, worthwhile ones ever got
         | so far hauling the others along, despite every last
         | counterproductive kicking and screaming effort to stop it.
        
         | _aavaa_ wrote:
         | There is a reason that you cannot sign your fundamental rights
         | away in a contract and why contracts can't override laws;
         | because poor people need the money and they will do it if they
         | don't have a better option.
         | 
         | Have you considered that the people doing this are those for
         | whom 30$ a day is a big deal? You can't feed your kids with
         | privacy, but 30$ goes a long way.
        
           | gausswho wrote:
           | And 30 dollars for hanky panky time. And 30 dollars for poop
           | monitors. And 30 dollars for your Ring cameras.
        
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