[bennettnate5]

> the NSA is able to

Or, you know, your telco provider, who then bundles and sells such data in aggregation to third party services. They've been caught doing it with location services over and over; it wouldn't take much for them to include audio recordings, as long as they have their terms & conditions sorted out

[throwaway50605]

Telco provider uses data from their towers. They don't transmit information from your phone.