Note this Reddit comment by what appears to be a couple of MS devs:<p><i>(fourbadcats) Indeed. This sure better be an oversight of something not disabled when transitioning from release candidate to RTM.
We will lose credibility with our customers if we claim that our application does not collect any usage data when this is going out over the wire.
I noticed that notelemetry.obj is not present with VS 2015 Update 1 so this may have been introduced with Update 2. Let&#x27;s hope it&#x27;s gone in Update 3.</i><p>and this too:<p><i>(spongo2) Let me gather some details</i><p>However, this is definitely highly disconcerting.