Clubhouse confirms it records conversations, tracks users within the app

Clubhouse, the drop-in audio chat app, has shot to fame in no time and has managed to get the attention of famous names like Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg with its unique platform.However, there are significant privacy concerns that have been raised by a report from Inc’s Jason Aten, citing Clubhouse policies that are available to the public. For starters, Clubhouse indeed records conversations. One of the app’s biggest highlights is having a room full of speakers and an audience who want to discuss some topics and the exchange being on the platform for a brief period and never being available again as a recording.The audio app says that the recordings are temporary and done for supporting incident investigations. Here’s what Clubhouse policy states, “Solely for the purpose of supporting incident investigations, we temporarily record the audio in a room while the room is live. If a user reports a Trust and Safety violation while the room is active, we retain the audio for the purposes of investigating the incident, and then delete it when the investigation is complete. If no incident is reported in a room, we delete the temporary audio recording when the room ends. Audio from (i)…
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