If you're worried about the information-gathering and telemetry features that are in Win 7, 8x and 10, here's info on a free third-party utility that will give you granular control over them:

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/use-free-spybot-utility-block-microsoft-monitoring-windows.htm

Note that these features are a separate issue and concern from the original discussion topic.

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