Janus Prospero wrote...
I thought EA softened up the EULA because people were complaining so much about it
EA changes Origin EULA
The newest Origin EULA (which went into effect on Wednesday)
specifically addresses some privacy concerns in the section "Consent to
collection and use of data."
According to the current agreement, "EA would never sell your personally
identifiable information to anyone, nor would it ever use spyware or
install spyware on users' machines. We and agents acting on our behalf
do not share information that personally identifies you without your
consent, except in rare instances where disclosure is required by law or
to enforce EA's legal rights."
While the wording on collecting information about a user's computer,
operating system, software, and software usage remains mostly intact,
another clause from the agreement no longer appears. That now-omitted
line originally stated, "EA may also use this information combined with
personal information for marketing purposes and to improve our products
and services. We may also share that data with our third party service
providers in a form that does not personally identify you." In fact, the
new EULA makes no mention of marketing at all.
The third section in the EULA, "Application communications and
conduct/privacy settings," has also changed considerably. It no longer
includes wording that "EA reserves the right to monitor communications
on the Application and disclose any information EA deems necessary," nor
does it specify that if users don't agree to EA's collection, they
shouldn't install the application.
Is this really any different than what Steam does? Even Bioware was able to pull player statistics from ME2 for development and marketing reasons.
The new terms didn't really do anything, the inital EULA simply had marketing included within it. The undefined unrestricted access clause remains, and the distribution, portion allows it to be distributed to third parties, but doesn't specify the purpose, which can potentially include marketing, but done via a third party data analyst taken on by EA. There is no definition of what information is sent either. And one has to read the privacy policy which overrides these terms if they conflict.
Whilst Mass effect 2 only identified other software, not its usage, Origins does. In additon Steam's was self restricted to items which interacted with its software only, from what I have read Origin scans the entire DataProgram folder, although I don't really see the point behind it, I think it is very strange in the way it acts.
From a contractual stand point very little changed, from the previous Origin EULA to this one, Steam's is less intrusive, although I don't like that one much either, whilst I don't know if I'll post the process moniter logs from what Steam gets up to, see if I find them. Generally I don't advocate Steam or Origin, I think Steam in this case is simply the lesser of two evils, not exactly a ringing endorsement of Steam, but there we go.
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i just dun understand how blk ppl say da word and then get offended when some1 else from a diff race says it. y not just ban everyone from sayin it? -sigh- such is life
