I can't prove it, but I think that's untrue. Anecdotally, I've only heard MS using it in the last 10 years or so, and it's been pretty common terminology for years before that.

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userbinator 6 days ago | parent [-]

Last 10 years is right - Windows 10 was when they went all-in, and that was released in 2015. Before that, "telemetry" usually referred to situations where the same entity owned both ends of the data collection, so "consent" wasn't even necessary.

	▲	jeroenhd 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Microsoft caught flack for backporting telemetry to Windows 7 in the Windows 8/8.1 era. They really started sucking down data in Windows 10 but their spying started years before that.