Might be, so better check like this user did:
Just checked my wife’s laptop. Local account, secure boot off, windows 10. It had a message telling me to setup a microsoft account to ‘finish encrypting the device’. I clicked turn off, and it’s currently decrypting the hard drive. Blech.
It’s not about information being free it’s about who this information is being credited to.
If I tell you I had the best idea ever and should be rewarded for it, it definitely matters if I just heard my neighbours talking and repeat what they thought of.