I have a way to thwart that... My phone is just used for work and is not surgically attached to my hand or ear... it gets left home A LOT ,, they can listen in to an empty room all they want,, maybe they like listening to my dogs snoring...
I’m seriously considering starting a business where I mod your phone by killing the GPS location chip, burn the power trace on the motherboard... and the same for cars ,, kill the location data and make the memory that stores throttle and brake position and all the other data the police will use against you volatile or so small that it constantly overwrites itself.
Sorry to tell you this, but they don’t use GPS chips anymore, The GPS radio is combined with the bluetooth, the wifi and the cellular radio, and NFC and FM radio functions if equipped into one piece of silicon, or GaAs.
The GPS function is done in software with hardware acceleration.
No chip to break.