"If you do not want this information reported, disable this package from the Metrics section of the Settings view"

https://github.com/atom/metrics

I saw that as well, but opt-out is a crappy default. It should be opt-in.

That commit summary is "Be up front about collecting usage information." If a company can make a better product because they collect usage information, and if they are up front about it and allow you to disable the data collection, then I'm all for it.