If you don't know the Origin system is an attempt by EA to copy the success of Steam. If you didn't know that then you also don't know that either the contract or software (i forget) was analysed by someone and found to facilitate EA literally RAIDING YOUR COMPUTER and sending back what they find to EA's fortress of doom or wherever those pale-faced, bloodsucking vultures live.
To the meat of the matter, when I read this I remembered something (possibly the only thing) that I learned from my high school computing class.
In the UK we have something called the Data Protection Act, the relevant points of this state that data on a person cannot be collected or held without their permission, and that if they request it be deleted or amended it MUST BE.
The upshot of this is that in the UK what Origin plans to do it strictly fucking illegal. If it still goes ahead I urge all of you UK-ers to point this out either to EA directly or to your Member of Parliament so that our government can actually control the activities of a large business for a change.
To the meat of the matter, when I read this I remembered something (possibly the only thing) that I learned from my high school computing class.
In the UK we have something called the Data Protection Act, the relevant points of this state that data on a person cannot be collected or held without their permission, and that if they request it be deleted or amended it MUST BE.
The upshot of this is that in the UK what Origin plans to do it strictly fucking illegal. If it still goes ahead I urge all of you UK-ers to point this out either to EA directly or to your Member of Parliament so that our government can actually control the activities of a large business for a change.
