Phone Snooping by apps survey
As one of the members said, however this is not just listening to your phone conversation but even listening to you when you are teaching your children or having a romantic moment with your spouse. Yes, scary. The phone microphone is listening to that and knows more about you than you can imagine.
And here I am not even talking about siri of apple home of google and alexa of amazon. They are home assistants so they probably even can detect when u need a particular grocery item and even auto order it.
https://www.localcircles.com/a/press/page/personal-data-privacy-survey
Our regulators are likely clueless and LC must escalate this more