[tw04]

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\DataCollection

I'm not sure why everyone pretends this is an MS thing and not an industry thing :/

[justinclift]

Is it really an industry thing? There do seem to be several large bad actors at present (MS being one of them), and but not sure it really extends to most of the IT industry.

Maybe you're meaning some non-IT industry? eg Marketing?