Shall i provide the german tests and texts on that matter ?
Origin scans the harddisk for any games and sends the contents to Origin, whether it found something or not. In most examined cases, the game has sent private information of the user, including subdirectories with files and all. This is not what i want any program to do. Under german law this is nothing else but Spyware. What would this be called by US law ?
I even believe that Origin does not INTENTIONALLY plans to USE this data for ANYTHING - just like Facebook never would (lol). That the CIA and private organisations meet with the Facebook founders to discuss methods of scraping information is certainly all
unintentional.
Certainly not really - there meanwhile companies being paid to create profiles of users using exactly this scraping technology.
Why does a dog lick his balls ? Because he
can.
As we have learned the hard way - what can be done will be done.