I wonder if that insane musking urgency is in any way related to baking up local elections that will take place there some time soon

if this is used, or there is some whitelist that gives permission for background microphone use in voice interaction services, apps with tracking capabilities probably use some set of predefined keywords (hardcoded inside the app itself) and those can be triggered while being on standby/in background, when there is a match some pinging goes to outside servers…

In Spanish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS6pqXO9l8U

It is based on NYTimes’ article, it’s archived in here.

I’d recommend you to take a look @ it, peace out