Pretty unlikely they're doing anything other than BTLE (bluetooth low energy) and mobile device tracking, like absolutely all other "tag" trackers. Anything else would require enormous batteries in the tags.
If you told me 10 years ago that people would be falling over themselves to PAY to build Orwellian tracking network on behalf of corporations for no reason at all I'd have called you completely insane.
Hate to be "that guy", and maybe OP's no updates since 2019 exempt them from this, but modern 10/11 both immediately auto-restart the Windows update service when it's manually stopped.
Incredibly daft person is surprised to find out their fellow incredibly daft in-group has spewed hateful nonsense 24 hours a day for the last two decades is daft
Aaaaaaand (deep breath)
Bullshit