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Do you have a source for that or you just making it up?
Its supposedly to learn typing habits. Heres how you turn it off.
https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/microsoft-windows-10-keylogger-enabled-default-heres-disable/
It's pretty hard to prove what anyone is doing with closed source code.
Could be batched, could be encrypted, could be bundled with other data etc etc
Decompilers: Are we a joke to you?
I'd still agree with his statement. Subset of people who could even make the determination in available source code is small compared to total users, now reduce that set to people competent in reverse engineering. "pretty hard" is not a bad description imo
Multiple. I understand that many of you won't believe or just don't know about Microsoft's spying, but that's the reality. It can happen that I can have wrong with certain things (I'm only human, remember that), but Microsoft spying on you is the fact of why I now using Linux as my main operating system since 2015/2016.
There is a lot more proof out there, but I can't think straight to be able to find them. So if you want to dig some more, by all means, do it.