On: Windows package manager does not permit opting out...

[ptx]

Elsewhere in this discussion, a Microsoft employee working on the new terminal was completely sure that the data it collected wasn't sent anywhere, until they looked into it again and discovered that it actually was being picked up by some part of the inscrutable telemetry machinery and sent off to Microsoft.

[naikrovek → ptx]

Yes, unless you turn it off or set telemetry collection to "basic".

Or if you build the tool yourself.