Intel now has separate self-powered chip-sets which stay on listening for audio...even when the phone or computer is "off".
It is a foreign company.
Intel CEO: “We See Ourselves as an Israeli Company as Much as a U.S. Company” | The Tower
https://www.csoonline.com/article/2603935/devices-featuring-intels-always-listening-chips-to-start-selling-in-october.html
“It doesn’t matter what state the system will be in, it will be listening all the time,” says Ed Gamsaragan, an engineer at Intel. “You could be actively doing work or it could be in standby.”
https://www.csoonline.com/article/3220476/researchers-say-now-you-too-can-disable-intel-me-backdoor-thanks-to-the-nsa.html
Since 2008, Intel’s chipsets have contained a separate always-on Management Engine computer that could not be disabled. The EFF described Intel ME as a “largely undocumented master controller for your CPU: it works with system firmware during boot and has direct access to system memory, the screen, keyboard and network.”.
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Meanwhile other things are still happening.
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