Comparing Privacy Policies: Clubhouse Versus Twitter

Clubhouse and Twitter Spaces are the newest entries to the audio space, but they both do different things with your data. Matt Binder examined their privacy policies.

The two platforms’ approaches to data storage really speak to a major difference in their intended uses. It seems Twitter users will be able to Spaces for more permanent content that they can repurpose for other platforms and mediums; whereas Clubhouse rooms will live strictly in the moment.

I don’t want to spoil the article but it sounds like Clubhouse audio recordings are more ephemeral.

iPhone ‘Call Recorder’ App Leaked User Conversations

An iPhone app called Call Recorder lets users record their phone call conversations. But a recently discovered bug leaked those calls.

But using a readily available proxy tool like Burp Suite, Prakash could view and modify the network traffic going in and out of the app. That meant he could replace his phone number registered with the app with the phone number of another app user, and access their recordings on his phone.

A new version of the app was submitted to Apple’s app store on Saturday. The release notes said the app update was to “patch a security report.”