If everyone wants it disabled, then it should be disabled by default.
If it's the type of thing no one would ever enable, unless it were defaulted as such, then it shouldn't even be there in the first place.
If someone paid money to put it there, then the person who agreed to do so isn't acting in the best interests of those they serve.
Fro memory: press the Meta/Windows key; write "privacy" on the dash; a window with privacy options appears; hit the Search tab, disable the checkbox.
It annoys me that it's there by default and non-technical users will not know how to do anything. There should be an option or warning on the dash itself.