Hi and welcome!

At least in your case it shows a warning, in our (N900) it sent automatically unless you first booted without a sim card and removed the program. And it charges you too for sharing your data.

Definitely evil.

Don't expect however anybody from Nokia to read and/or respond here. Nokia abandoned maemo and this site is now fully community-run.

You are welcome however to rant about privacy issues here anytime. :-P You'll find many like minded people around.