Yes, you can remove apport but unless you actually agree(d) on apport sending information it will never send any data.

Even better: The automatic crash interception component of apport is disabled by default in stable releases for a number of reasons:

• Apport collects potentially sensitive data, such as core dumps, stack traces, and log files. They can contain passwords, credit card numbers, serial numbers, and other private material.
  This is mitigated by the fact that it presents you what will be sent to the bug tracker, and that all crash report bugs are private by default, limited to the Ubuntu bug triaging team. We can reasonably expect developers and technically savvy users, who run the development release, to be aware of this and judge whether it is appropriate to file a crash report. But we shouldn't assume that every Ubuntu user of stable releases is able to do so.




• During the development release we already collect thousands of crash reports, much more than we can ever fix. Continuing to collect those for stable releases is not really useful, since

  
  
  
  
  
  • The most important crashes have already been discovered in the development release.
  
  
  • The less important ones are not suitable for getting fixed in stable releases (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
  
  
  • Asking users to send crash reports to us is insincere, since we can't possibly answer and deal with all of them.
  
  



• Data collection from apport takes a nontrivial amount of CPU and I/O resources, which slow down the computer and don't allow you to restart the crashed program for several seconds.

If apport is currently active you can disable it by editing...

sudo nano /etc/default/apport

and follow the comments:

# set this to 0 to disable apport, or to 1 to enable it

# you can temporarily override this with

# sudo service apport start force_start=1

enabled=1

Set it to 0.