If you would like to switch off this telemetry, you could try to disable Turn on telemetry data collection and Turn on data uploading for Office Telemetry Agent in User Configuration\Policies\Administrative Templates\Microsoft Office 2016\Telemetry Dashboard to check this issue.
More information about related registry, you could refer to “Disable data collection for the agent”.
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