OK Google

Article = None ,personal experience.

Girlfriend got a new phone, a moto - e from motorola. It had OK google on it .
Which takes data usage.

Why ? Because it's sending everything you say across the internet to google servers , for voice recognition purposes.

And the us government can now remote activate it and use your own phone to spy on you.

Well , not her. she has no data plan, I think. (They might force the provider to provide "free data" and eat the cost for them to spy on you)

I am seriously considering going back to a plain flip phone.

They spy on everyone in the world, every google search , every facebook post, and now they're listening in on you via you're own phone.  NSA has even been caught putting an illegal (or at least user unwanted) app on phones that only pretends to turn the phone off, so you think it's off and it's still spying on you.

This is now getting insane.