Why is it so difficult to prove or disprove that a smartphone spies on what its owner is saying

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After hearing about Cox Media Group, I am wondering why someone can’t simply look at the lines of code of an app or OS and see whether or not a connected device is spying on the user to sell them ads.

Like extract the .ipa Instagram app from an iphone and look at its code with xcode, search for audio recording features that could be running at times the iser isn’t running the app.

The multiple theories around this hypothesis always have something mystical about it as if coding wasn’t science.

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I feel like it would be less obvious if they had a delay and fed you stuff later, but it seems overly obvious they’re spying when you just mention something in conversation, open your phone and hey, there’s an Ad for the thing I just talked about but have never searched for once before this.

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