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Whether phones are listening or not
What is the redacted part in the rationale to ban Tik Tok
A note on the latter, it is presented as national security threat. They won't say what it is. I presume because some of the shit they don't want a foreign power doing is sth they very much do themselves.
The answer for 1 from EFF: Is my phone listening to me?
Wasn't there a leak recently where an executive said they were listening?