That's a creepy thought, right there. Any given phone's microphone is going to be picking up on the surrounding conversations as well. I suspect it's pretty str

That's a creepy thought, right there. Any given phone's microphone is going to be picking up on the surrounding conversations as well. I suspect it's pretty straightforward to listen in on those through various enhancement techniques. There's difference between "pattern-analyze the conversations of people we are authorized to listen to" and "pattern-analyze the conversations of anyone speaking near someone we are authorized to listen to".