World of Warcraft & your privacy
There has been some controversy in Blizzard’s official World of Warcraft forums lately over the concept of privacy. After some players started asking some pointed questions in a now-locked message thread, an official Blizzard post from community rep Caydiem confirmed that the company scans players’ computers for hacking programs. He tried to address the issue of whether the scans are ethically appropriate, as well as being legal and allowed by the EULA, assuring the player base that Blizzard was collecting no personally identifiable information, just looking for the cheaters.
Of course, the controversy hasn’t stopped there.
Questions arose about certain clauses in the WoW EULA which note collection of certain demographic data, some players wanting to know just what information is being collected, some not caring at all… the usual gamut, but running more towards "keep your filthy fingers off my hard drive!" This isn’t the first time we seen this kind of reaction here.
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