So is a Google Search.
Whenever you type into the Google Search Box it is "collecting your every keystroke" or when you use voice search it is listening to your every "spoken syllable."
You can word stuff that way to make anything sound like a keylogger. Heck even Hacker News is "collecting my every keystroke!"
> But Cortana doesn’t stop there. With the recently released Windows 10 Anniversary Update, hereafter Windows 10 SP1, you can’t shut Cortana off.
Misleading.
You can turn off all the web integration functionality of Cortana and turn it into glorified Windows Search. What Microsoft removed was a specific slider that never really did anything, all the other privacy controls (including disabling web search entire) still exist either in the Privacy Settings panel or in Cortana's own settings.
> Maybe you don’t mind Microsoft listening to your every word so it can catch when you say, “Hey, Cortana.” I do. Yes, I want the coolness factor of being able to talk to my computer. But I want the reassurance that it’s not listening when I don’t need it to be. I want a simple on/off switch. Windows 10 SP1 doesn’t have one. This is interesting, though: Windows 10 Education does.
This is just outright untrue. "Hey, Cortana" can be disabled in Cortana's settings on all versions of Windows 10 with or without the anniversary update installed.