Three main options are exposed to users and administrators in the Settings application:
- Store my activity history on this device.
- Send my activity history to Microsoft.
- Show activities for specific accounts.
The first keeps track of activity on the device, the second sends it to Microsoft.
Even if you disable all three options in Settings, activity may be listed on Microsoft's Privacy Dashboard website on the company's account.microsoft.com site.
A user on Reddit
noticed this and published a question on the site about the issue. Sign in was done with a local account and a Microsoft Account was used only for the Store.
Even with all Activity History toggles disabled, Activity History was displayed on the
Privacy Dashboard for the Microsoft account.