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They problem is that Microsoft continuously used the term "telemetry" as a euphemism for the dystopian corporate spyware they shipped with Windows 10. So now to

• kortex 5y ago
  I get what you are getting at, but It's not really a euphemism. Telemetry means literally "distant measurement." You can use telemetry to track sensors in a rocket, a request across a service mesh, a traceback from a crash in a user program, fine-grained details about everything a user does in Windows, or a straight-up keylogger. All are forms of telemetry. The VS telemetry injection is scary as hell though. Telemetry is like a knife. Context and location matters. Great in the kitchen, bad when lodged in your back. Sharing this from myself downthread: Telemetry is the in situ collection of measurements or other data at remote points and their automatic transmission to receiving equipment (telecommunication) for monitoring. The word is derived from the Greek roots tele, "remote", and metron, "measure". All spyware is, by definition, telemetry. Heck, the whole field of spycraft ( espionage ) is telemetry of sorts. Not all telemetry is spyware.