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Some phones do have hardware switches, but they're certainly the exception.
Whether our phones are surreptitious spy devices when they're oriented correctly and have adversarial software running is very different from, "I'm going to buy always-on camera glasses and send the data to one of the most untrustworthy companies on the planet," the latter of which was my point.