[czbond]

Is it absurd? My leap seems smaller and more logical than the alternative. The technical fact is that each of these features exist, and are used daily.

A device which does not have a hardware cutoff switch, which you've allowed to listen for it's own prompts ("Hey Siri, etc") can listen to you. So far we're all speaking "current knowns". Nothing about that is conspiracy.

The trust part is "storage of data received" and "use of that data". Sure it probably does not today - but will the terms of service change tomorrow?

An example parallel are Alexa devices listening, and accidentally storing whole convos.