I'm no defender of surveillance, but this website is a highly paranoid take on what is just a patent application. Sometimes companies file patents on dark-patt

I'm no defender of surveillance, but this website is a highly paranoid take on what is just a patent application. Sometimes companies file patents on dark-pattern type techniques just to prevent other companies from using those techniques. Also, I guess the website creators don't realize this, a lot of speech recognition can be done completely on the device with the audio and the recognized words never leaving the device. (Modern mobile OS versions and increasingly desktop OS versions are giving the end user more and more control over whether they allow anything beyond this, on a per-app basis.) The service could, for example, boil everything down to just one bit of information: The user likes this song. Or does not like this song. True, or false. One bit. That's pretty far from the drama presented on the website.