&gt; If you are truly worried about spy devices, you should really consider dropping your cell phone in the toilet.<p>&gt; Honestly, if you&#x27;re worried about this sort of thing, you shouldn&#x27;t own a cell phone.<p>People keep saying this but not owning a cell phone doesn&#x27;t help against being in the vicinity of a far-field microphone connected to echo?<p>Then your idea about pcapping 24&#x2F;7, I&#x27;m not sure what this data would look like, but given that the software emitting it is closed-source and auto-updating, wouldn&#x27;t it change every other update or so? You&#x27;d have to re-reverse the data every time to see what it&#x27;s actually sending, sounds like a lot of work, like keeping an eye on a young child to make sure it&#x27;s not creating&#x2F;getting into any trouble.<p>You can call it &quot;paranoid&quot;, but I think by now we have all seen enough reports about these sorts of things going wrong (on purpose or by accident), it&#x27;s more reasonable to say that <i>you</i> are okay trading convenience for privacy+security than calling the people who aren&#x27;t, &quot;paranoid&quot;. It&#x27;s 2016.<p>BTW if you can make sense of the pcapped data sent out, that means it&#x27;s not encrypted, right?