Watch Out for Windows 11, as it Collects Data Even While you are Offline

You turned off the privacy sliders in Windows 11 because you don’t want to share your data with Microsoft, and you must have thought that was the end of the matter. It turns out that Windows 11 is still gathering a lot of your data, even on a brand-new computer.

In a recent YouTube video by The PC Security Channel, Neowin reported on how the behaviour of a brand-new Windows 11 laptop and a brand-new Windows XP installation differed in terms of what data, if any, was being shared online.

The YouTubers were able to find out some intriguing but not unexpected details regarding the kind of telemetry that Windows 11 was sending by using the Wireshark network protocol analyzer. They discovered that Windows 11 was actively sending data to Microsoft and outside servers during boot-up, even before an internet connection was established. For instance, the data was sent to marketing and advertising networks as well as software servers (perhaps for upgrades, antivirus updates, checking for trial versions, etc.).

In stark contrast, the 20-year-old 64-bit version of Windows XP scarcely, if at all, produced a sound. To check for

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