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"Leaking" data they are supposed to have is not anywhere close to secretly recording user audio. They have plausible deniability with what you hear on news. There is no deniability when they are caught recording users. "Carelessness" does not lead an app to go rogue and start listening and transcribing audio.

Like I said, the problem I see with theory is that it doesn't hold ground even with all the assumptions one should be expected to make.

As for NSA, none of their surveillance was happening on the device. So that again is not the same as this theory.