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They already know everything you have installed. They have an option to "disable" telemetry but who knows how reliable that is.
Oh, I'm hoping it's not reliable. GDPR fines are fun and the EU needs funding somehow.
I assume everything big companies tell you a thing is doing is being done, because big companies have big legal departments and compliance departments and would rather write a new EULA than pay billions of dollars.
It doesn't mean that some billionaire CEO asshole won't occassionally flaunt the rules, but I hate the paranoid default that makes people sound like hyperpartisan conspiracy theorists. Big corpos do enough crap out in the open to be mad about, you don't need to make up new crap to be madder about.