Let's imagine a refrigerator that has a microphone and a speaker in it. To your surprise, you discover that hears the word "thirsty", it plays an ad for Pepsi. Is that a wiretapping device?
There are multiple ways to implement this fridgevertiser. At one end of the spectrum, it sends all your audio to headquarters, where a team of underpaid snoops listen for the word "thirsty" and press the "play ad" button when they hear it. Pretty clearly interception of content.
But...
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