As a very long term iOS user, when I saw this headline my first reaction was why is keyboard privacy even a thing i've never even bothered changing the keyboard of iOS and would certainly be prompted for any suspicious activity like mic or camera and would instantly reject it if i ever installed one. But this is very complicated on Android. I once maintained an Android phone for my Dad and the permissions prompt on that are so overwhelming that it's very easy to get people into 'accepting all' and I feel like this is the idea behind the design by Google. One shouldn't be worried about a keyboard spying about you and should be as easy as flip of a switch in settings from not allowing it but it's a lot more complicated than that on Android.