[CedarDave]

What Microsoft seems to say in the privacy notice is that some updates will be forced on you if you so much as click to just show the available updates:

If you turn on the Update Services, regardless of which setting you have chosen, required updates to some components of the service will be downloaded and installed automatically without further notice to you.

[TChad]

regardless of which setting you have chosen...

I'd like to think that Microsoft isn't dumb enough to forcibly unhide and install updates that the user has chosen to hide.

Microsoft has even provided a tool to hide updates in Windows 10:

http://www.ghacks.net/2015/07/27/microsoft-releases-tool-to-block-windows-10-updates/

From the link above: "Windows will not install hidden updates."

I will say that Linux Mint 17.2 simply lets me install the updates I want to install, when I want to install them. There have been no forced updates.