If you want links to code repositories for each of the papers, there is already a project http://www.gitxiv.com/. It also has a comments section. Maybe both the maintainers can work together to get both the projects integrated. I actually subscribe to GitXiv mailing lists as well since they send list of top articles under particular categories.
This is clearly for clickbait. Only your voice search commands are recorded just like the history of what you searched using Google or your browser history.
The article speaks in "may"s and "might"s a lot, I can't find one concrete point outside the title, besides of course "after activation by speaking OK Google your audio is sent to Google". It seems to be clickbait indeed.
