[carimura]

Would Apple (or Tesla) have to be colluding here if it was in fact using the iphone mic to listen in?

edit: found some info on this here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38688101

[api]

A ton of this data goes to data brokers that integrate and resell it. No direct collusion is needed.

The data broker industry is huge, shady, unregulated, and in many cases offshore.