[sneak]

Telemetry tells your ISP and national military your usage patterns, too. When, where, and how often you use the tools is itself private.

Imagine a private journal that reported to the government every time you wrote in it, and what city you were in when you did so.

Furthermore, VS Code is specialized software. Using it in certain places allows a specific user to be tracked and identified out of millions of more "normal" traffic patterns, as developers are still a tiny minority in society.