Rather than ad hominem, perhaps you could address the fundamental consent issue?
It doesn't matter how you store the data obtained without consent.
What you are doing is fundamentally unethical, and you only get away with it because most of your users are unaware that you are doing it.
I post about it because your users deserve to know what you are silently using their computer to do each time they install a package. You have fooled them (and yourself) with this distraction about a "notice".
A new low for you by literally comparing an open source project gathering analytics to sexual assault and rape this time.