I haven't seen anyone closely investigating the telemetry added in 2016 to Windows 7 and 8, now that you mention it. All I've seen are reports it's "the same as

I haven't seen anyone closely investigating the telemetry added in 2016 to Windows 7 and 8, now that you mention it. All I've seen are reports it's "the same as Windows 10". I would be very surprised if MS allowed users to disable the newly added Win7/8 telemetry, as they do not allow it on Win10.