For sure, which is why my smartphone never leaves my house (unless turned off and battery removed), it doesn't have a SIM card, has google services disabled (though the efficacy of that is debatable), and I use a prepaid flip phone on the road.
It's crazy and depressing how expensive and...
A lot of my concerns will be remedied if it is possible to mechanically deactivate the microphone. In my Rav4, there was a fuse that could be pulled that deactivates the data collection module, which doesn't actually stop it from collecting data, but kills the antenna for sending data. That was...