IPad reports to Apple

Does anyone know anything about the reports that MDCrashReportTool sends to https://iphonesubmissions.apple.com? It appears that a file called "aggregated.some-date.crash" gets sent to Apple every time the iPad is synched with iTunes or every time there was a crash since the last sync. This file appears to contain all the apps that have been run since the last sync and the amount of time each app is run, in CPU seconds, I am guessing.
This seems like way too much information that should be collected and reported back to Apple anonymously like this, and seems like it could be very easily abused if it became public. I don't see any personal info, but with the IP address that it's coming from wouldn't be hard to associate person with behaviour.
Anyone know how to stop this from happening?
To see what's going on run the Console program on the Mac that's used to sync your iPad/iPhone/iPod and look in the following location for files called aggregated.yyyy-mm-dd.crash
~/Library/Logs
CrashReporter
MobileDevice
"name of your iPad device"
Comments???
-Bob

I guess I didn't explain enough - there is no crash infomation in either of the "aggragated*" files - just info about which apps have been run and how long they have run. This infomation can be of no help in debugging any crashes IMHO. These look totally different from iTouch or iPhone files in the crash directory - they actually appear to have crash related info.
So, since there is no crash info (no stack traces etcc), why the subterfuge about using the crash reporting mechanism to report usage stats?
So, yes, I'm being a bit paranoid and my hat has recently been polished but it still bothers me that this sort of info is being relayed to Apple or anyone else. Do you think this is acceptable behavior for Apple to collect this level of detail about what and how long you spend your time using your iPad? They already keep track of which apps I've got, which is great since they can tell me when updates are available, but this is a whole different class of information they are tracking.
So does anyone see these aggregated* files in their Logs?
-Bob

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