A lot of people are rightfully whinging about Canonical collecting more user data besides the very useful (IMHO) Apport. I seriously doubt that MW wold include it, but I want to post authoritatively on the YouTube complaints that UM definitely does not collect data.
Can anyone answer this question?
@Frederick_Wrigley - Ubuntu MATE is part of Ubuntu. It collects the data if you checked the box to do so (the data collection is optional, of course, and it’s a one-time JSON of some basic hardware config).
To be honest, that data is extremely helpful for developers to help debug and fix issues. It also allows us to focus efforts on hardware and configurations that users actually have, rather than guesstimating.
That said, if you’re against this collection, please uncheck the box during your install. It sends an anonymous ping that increments the number of users that refuse this feature. That also helps Canonical determine whether to include this feature in future versions or not.
I think that people are torqued off at Canonical was the Amazon connection
and the other ways Canonical was acting like, well, Google.
I cannot see how people don’t want Apport to report bugs…
I removed apport for one reason, to paraphrase FDR, “The only thing apport reported was apport itself”. 
Have no idea why it was the only program having problems, but it’s working fine without it, so no paranoia here folks! 