You may have read about Samsung or other TV brands listening in to owners conversations.
Yes, I have.
In fact, I suspect that all Android devices are constant listening. Was discussing something reasonably obscure with a friend the other night, picked up the phone to search up something on the subject, and before I even finished typing the first search word, the first result was exactly what I was looking for (and it wasn’t something I’ve ever searched for before).
But they can’t see me through it, or control anything in my home with it, and disabling it would require killing its network connection, so I’ll let it be.