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 Post subject: Collection of personal data by EA Games and Microsoft
PostPosted: 12 Aug 2006 16:39 
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A videogame blog spot Dubious Quality is creating quite a stir from doing a seemingly mundane thing: reading the EA Games Privacy Policy. Apparently, as Dubious Quality puts it, the "privacy" policy is a bit of a misnomer. Having waded through all the fine print and legal mishmash, Dubious Quality discovered that playing an EA game on Xbox Live grants EA tacit approval to obtain Xbox account information from Microsoft.

Information collected will vary depending upon the activity and may include your name, e-mail address, phone number, mobile number, home address, birth date and credit card information. In addition, we may collect demographic information such as gender, zip code, information about your computer, hardware, software, platform, media, Internet IP address and connection, information about online activity such as feature usage, game play statistics and scores, user rankings and click paths and other data that you may provide in surveys or online profiles, for instance. We may combine demographic information with personal information.

EA has yet to comment on the recent "discovery." Let the Microsoft/EA flaming begin.




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