Technology ultimately can't protect you from government and corpo snooping. It's only laws that can limit what happens, at least to some extent. And those laws

Technology ultimately can't protect you from government and corpo snooping. It's only laws that can limit what happens, at least to some extent. And those laws are better focused on the actual collection and uses of data, than minutiae about the hardware/software. It's ultimately irrelevant that the OS could listen on you if it doesn't.