Google agreed to pay $68 million in a settlement in a class action lawsuit brought by smartphone users who claimed that Google Android was eavesdropping on their conversations and using them for marketing purposes. Google, of course, insisted that this was not the case and that the phone only records/decodes audio after the phrase ‘hey Google’ is spoken – which is nonsense in itself, because in order for the phone to hear this phrase at all, it must first ‘listen’ to everything that is said. And as we know from past Facebook case with “give us your mobile phone exclusively for security authentication”, once a commercial company gets a piece of data it can sell, it will sell it.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-voice-assistant-lawsuit-settlement-68-million/