EA is Spying on You by File Snooping with the Origin Client – Official Investigation Begins

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A very interesting thread on the Reddit was sent to me by my colleague Tyler Roemhildt. It turns out that EA is snooping files aka spying on your usage habits via the Origin client. And it looks like this is more or less confirmed because Origin representatives claim “they are trying to get to the bottom of this”.

Privacy is a very sensitive topic in the world of Internet and one of the biggest gaming clients spying in your usage habits is cause for concern. Now what exactly does “usage habits” mean? Well, from the looks of it, Origin is taking its merry time looking around the personal files on your computer, most probably when they are running, and this includes your browser as well. Now while we do not know whether it can spy on your browsing activity as well, the mere fact that it is accessing the browser process is discerning.

http://wccftech.com/ea-spying-file-snooping-origin-client-investigation/

I'm just happy i don't have it installed.
 
They could just be snooping for hacks. Just because they are snooping files doesn't mean it's sinister and that EA want to steal your life.

Anyway, this was discussed a couple of years ago. It's been known since then that they do it, it's even in their terms of service for Origin.
 
They could just be snooping for hacks. Just because they are snooping files doesn't mean it's sinister and that EA want to steal your life.

Anyway, this was discussed a couple of years ago. It's been known since then that they do it, it's even in their terms of service for Origin.

yea it's looking for hax same as the wow client was doing years ago
 
Pretty much everything out there which is a platform or game launcher does it for the purpose of keeping hackers in check and tracking user statistics/trends for marketing reasons
 
yea it's looking for hax same as the wow client was doing years ago

No, it's clearly the evil organisation that is EA spying on all my personal files and stealing all my money. :rolleyes: Why would EA want to spy on your files when they could just pay Google to view your browser history instead? The EA hate circlejerk is just getting ridiculous.
 
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