Is Your Voice App Spying on You? Free Privacy Audit

The Privacy Audit

Answer YES or NO for each question about your current voice recording app.

Your Privacy Score

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Answer the questions below to see your score

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Does your voice recording app upload audio to external servers? Risk: Your raw voice data leaves your device entirely
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Can your app's company access your recordings? Risk: A third party can listen to your most private conversations
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Does your app require an internet connection to transcribe? Risk: Audio must travel over the internet to be processed
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Is your audio used to train AI models? Risk: Your voice becomes part of a dataset the company profits from
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Does your app's privacy policy allow sharing data with third parties? Risk: Your data can be sold to advertisers, data brokers, or analytics firms
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Are your recordings stored on the company's servers (not just your device)? Risk: A server breach exposes your entire recording library
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Does your app use cloud-based speech recognition (Google, AWS, Azure, OpenAI)? Risk: Audio is processed under a third party's privacy policy, not just your app's
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Can your app's employees listen to your recordings for "quality improvement"? Risk: Humans — not just algorithms — can access your conversations
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Does your app retain your data after you delete your account? Risk: You can't actually erase your data — it outlives your account
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Is your app missing end-to-end encryption for synced recordings? Risk: Recordings are readable by the company or anyone who intercepts them in transit
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Does your app collect metadata (location, contacts, device info) alongside recordings? Risk: Even "anonymous" data can be combined with metadata to identify you
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Can law enforcement access your recordings through the company's servers? Risk: A subpoena or warrant to the company is all it takes — you may not even be notified
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Does your app lack an offline mode for recording and transcription? Risk: You're forced to expose data to the internet to use basic features
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Is your app's transcription processed by a third-party API? Risk: Your audio is handled by a vendor your app may not even disclose
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Does your app share anonymized or aggregated voice data with partners? Risk: "Anonymized" doesn't mean private — voice patterns can re-identify you

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Why Voice App Privacy Matters

Voice recordings are among the most sensitive data you create. Unlike passwords or credit card numbers, your voice is biometric — it can be used to verify your identity, synthesize speech that sounds exactly like you, and infer emotional states. Yet most popular recording apps treat this data like any other file.

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Voice Is Biometric Data

Your voiceprint is as unique as a fingerprint. Unlike a compromised password, you can't change your voice.

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Context Reveals Everything

Meeting recordings contain confidential strategy, client names, financial details, and personal conversations — far more than most cloud backups.

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On-Device Is the Only Safe Default

If audio never leaves your device, it can't be breached, subpoenaed, or sold. That's the architecture Basil was built on.

Is Your Voice App Spying on You?