Yes, but not all populist leaders work on killing freedom. Or diluting Right to Information. Or making political funding opaque through anonymous bonds. This is not even close to Godwin's law. The government is curtailing freedom. The government is letting criminal/lynchers/gaurakshaks loose. Even people who kill policemen are on the loose for months now.
Recently Amol Palekar was brazenly stopped from talking against the government, and this whole thing happened infront of media.
"Leaking" data they are supposed to have is not anywhere close to secretly recording user audio. They have plausible deniability with what you hear on news. There is no deniability when they are caught recording users. "Carelessness" does not lead an app to go rogue and start listening and transcribing audio.
Like I said, the problem I see with theory is that it doesn't hold ground even with all the assumptions one should be expected to make.
As for NSA, none of their surveillance was happening on the device. So that again is not the same as this theory.
It's not as simple as that. Owing to the larger populace that India has, the cost is being shared amongst consumers. The magic being that bandwidth is oversubscribed. As in say 20 users share the same resource, so if all 20 users are online they get only 5% of the promised bandwidth.
So facebook does speech recognition in realtime for every android device out there and share it in realtime with the many ad networks. Someone is really screwed up at facebook to share such an incriminating secret or business leverage (depending on how you want to see it) with competitors.
The conspiracy theory doesn't seem to hold ground.