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Once again, "you can opt out" isn't a serious answer. It's a matter of policy to anonymize the data, and Canonical changes policies unilaterally. The feature isn't under the control of users at all, and that is why it's dangerous.

Canonical has made it abundantly clear that their users have no voice in the development of Ubuntu, in fact they've been quite hostile when confronted with their secretive and authoritarian development practices.