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Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones
(www.the-independent.com)
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All recent OSes even visually make it obvious that the microphone is used, after asking the user if they should allow it at all. I don’t think they can actually to more far than this. Maybe regularly ask the user if they really want the microphone to be used all the time.