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Does your PC support Wake-On-Lan? Effectively, leaving the port powered to allow switching on over the network
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN
It does, but wake on lan is disabled in the BIOS.
Power to the port may be hardwired for that feature to exist even though you have it disabled. Usually older models, but some do stay on just from being powered.
If it's a privacy concern check at your router and see if it holds an address.