This paper discusses the privacy implications of ceaseless speech recognition technology in mobile phones. It presents a brief history of the evolution of speech recognition technologies, indicating its proximity to the US military and intelligence sectors, and the parallelism between the advances in processing techniques and computer hardware. It examines technological advances by Google that led to the implementation of ceaseless speech recognition in mobiles; identifies some privacy violations made possible by this, and concludes relating them to privacy typologies, and to the notion of control society.