You’re trusting Microsoft’s word that telemetry is anonymous

Do you honestly and truly believe that nobody has ever analysed these packets? That nobody in any security position, especially in business, has ever checked if sensitive information wasn’t being transmitted? That the entire IT and Data Security world just goes “huh, I guess they’re spying on us, nothing we can do about it”?

Microsoft’s word isn’t worth very much:

Microsoft doesn’t publish detailed breakdowns of telemetry collection, which is a red flag in itself

Huh?

especially on the topic

Oh yeah, Recall, the absolutely horrible… ummm… *checks notes* fully local and encrypted system… That isn’t even implemented yet… but when it is, you’ll need to manually turn it on…

Yeah, truly, the death of privacy is upon us.

of privacy

Have you read the article you linked?