Everything you do on Windows 10, all activity is monitored and sent back to the mother ship. Sure you can try to prevent some things from going back but not all. The monitoring is built into the OS Kernel and there is NO way to prevent the automatic updates to the operating system.
The only way to stop the spying is to install the expensive corporate enterprise version.
Germany has mandated that no Windows 10 machines can be used in government business. They are well aware about the executive order that Obama made to Microsoft.
I have no W10 on my 5 laptops. MOST are W7. I even bought 2 of them from Craigslist and one was located in a screwed up hood’ where the guy barely spoke English. That’s how dedicated I was in NOT buying any laptop with W10.
Can't you use the hosts file to block the IP addresses of the update servers?
just run gpedit and turn it off. its a setting. not sure why so many are whining about Win10. do some research and you will figure it out.
“and there is NO way to prevent the automatic updates to the operating system.”
all you have to do is disable the update service ...
https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+10+disable+update+service