Windows 11 - Microphone icon in system tray

I want to get rid of the icon too - it's my personal computer that only I use. I live by myself, literally no one else has access to this machine. Don't asume absolutely everyone is malicious.

I just reinstalled my pc, an noticed this icon too.

I had Windows 11 22h2 before and never had this icon, even when I talked on discord or whatever, why have I suddenly an unncessary icon that I can't remove ?

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You answered the OP indeed by saying that it is not possible and next to that, you said that that was a good thing (in your opinion I assume).
All replies you got are about that latter part that it is a good thing. We all think it is a bad thing.

So from the question point of view: yes you answered the question: It is not possible to turn off that (in my opinion) annoying icon.

But the majority here says it should be possible since we think it is unnecessary and unwanted that Microsoft plays Big Brother and controls what we do. That is not a task of Microsoft but of the government, since they make regulation. And since every country in the world has different regulations Microsoft should never put themselves in a situation where they force a regulation of one country (or in the case of the US: a state) upon all other other users living in other countries / states. That is very bad design.

Again we (at least I) are (am) not against acting against idiots who spy on others in the way you describe. They should be locked away and the key thrown away in my opinion. But it is against MS abusing its monopoly system as if they were Apple.