The notation that phones that secretly listen to us, because the big tech companies are evil and they do it because they can - may be a complete myth. But the

The notation that phones that secretly listen to us, because the big tech companies are evil and they do it because they can - may be a complete myth. But the notation that phones, due to their system insecurity, widespread of malicious applications, the reliance of voice recognition over 3rd-party servers (and in turns, their insecurity), and the ethical problems of handing training data and samples, are all avenues that can be easily exploited to secretly listen to us, is very true. Overemphasizing the first notion while downplaying the second one is a way to manipulatively shutdown the public concerns over privacy issues.