The FBI can secretly turn on your cellphone mic to eavesdrop on you

[MADem]

3. A school loaned out computers and turned on the cameras and microphones to see what the students

were doing in their HOMES...who remembers that story from a while back? Ah, yes, here it is...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins_v._Lower_Merion_School_District

The suit alleged that, in what was dubbed the "WebcamGate" scandal, the schools secretly spied on the students while they were in the privacy of their homes.[3][4] School authorities surreptitiously and remotely activated webcams embedded in school-issued laptops the students were using at home.[5][6] After the suit was brought, the school district, of which the two high schools are part, revealed that it had secretly snapped more than 66,000 images.[7][8] The suit charged that in doing so the district infringed on its students' privacy rights.[5][9][10] A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction, ordering the school district to stop its secret webcam monitoring, and ordered the district to pay the plaintiffs' attorney fees.[11][12][13]

I should think if that could be done, turning on a phone and listening should be a piece of cake. They'd better get a warrant first, though.