Comment by Esophagus4

I think you’re conflating lots of different types of data into one giant “data.”

Microsoft does not sell / use for advertising data from your Bitlocked laptop.

They do use the following for advertising:

Name / contact data Demographic data Subscription data Interactions

This seems like what a conspiracy theorist would imagine a giant evil corporation does.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/usstateprivacynotice