"any third party applications you have on your phone—like Facebook for example—still have access to this “non-triggered” data" Source? (I know it's three years

"any third party applications you have on your phone—like Facebook for example—still have access to this “non-triggered” data" Source? (I know it's three years old.) The piece offers nothing to back this up, and I have trouble believing it. What OSes allow apps to access audio data that _didn't_ trigger the assistant?