I've read nothing new from this article, but I've never heard of that app RYL and the concept that you can occupy the mic with one app at the time.

Apart from the fact that that app will be listening all your day and that will make your phone containing sensible information anyway, I could be leaked as easily as that information is also stored as compressed as possible, for easy and non noticeable way in your internet footprint. Yet you can trust an app who's not open source, if your read their manifesto.

I wonder if this article was all about RYL anyway.