Nope. That's just steam takin ur data.

Not mah datas!!!

But srsly read the part at the top of that page:
"Participation in the survey is optional"

I use steam and a popup appears and you can say yes or no.

Still, I guess your right, they both want your datas.
I'm sure that EA is gonna be less nice about it tho, especially since they went out of their way to prevent you from taking part in any class action lawsuits agensed them.

If you expect class action lawsuits your up to no good imo.

[color=#1C2837][size=2]Is there any way to say, limit its permissions to files in a specific folder with no access to things like installed programs and stuff like that?[/quote]
[color="#1c2837"]If you really must bend over and accept their terms then why not change your way of thinking about it. Let it see what ever it wants, just give it a clean OS so there is nothing you would like to protect.

[color="#1c2837"]If you really must bend over and accept their terms then why not change your way of thinking about it. Let it see what ever it wants, just give it a clean OS so there is nothing you would like to protect.

I don't really have anything to protect (unless simply having bit-torrent installed is a red flag lol), it's just general principal.
I mean, I guess having them snoop around my work source-code would be the thing that would most irk me but I doubt they are gonna read it heh.

As for myself, this feature and these terms are the reason these companies are missing out on several thousand every year. I'd sure enough like to buy quite a few of their games, but Idon't happen to grok why some fag at "some company" should have remote control over my computer, just because they sell a game. That's even more true insofar as some particularly intrusive/abusive companies had known vulnerabilities in the rootkits they install on legitimate users' computers for years without bothering to fix them. Which basically means not just them, but every random loser on the internet could hijack your computer any time with no special knowledge, and irrespective of what security measures you take.

Ironically, I'm one of the people who don't have a single piece of pirated software or porn on their computer and who actually pay for all their stuff, by principle.

Ironically, I'm one of the people who don't have ... porn ... by principle.

That's why you need to be datamined, sir. To be understood as a species.

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Ironically, I'm one of the people who don't have ... porn ... by principle.

That's why you need to be datamined, sir. To be understood as a species.
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Blue Ray.

Still, I guess your right, they both want your datas.
I'm sure that EA is gonna be less nice about it tho, especially since they went out of their way to prevent you from taking part in any class action lawsuits agensed them.

If you expect class action lawsuits your up to no good imo.

You sound prejudiced against EA. Do you have any evidence? Or are you on the "EA and M$ are evil!! EEEEVIL!" bandwagon?

The TOS at Origin and Steam are basically the same. The ability to opt-in and opt-out of the data collection is the same.

Yes, they have the class action lawsuit boilerplate. Compare it with Sony's, AT&T's, and other companies' agreements. It has been in many TOS for years, but now that the SCOTUS has affirmed it in a case against AT&T and in a case against walmart, it is rapidly entering every TOS agreement out there. That's what lawyers do.

Finally, these are not the only companies to do it. Have you checked out the headers of your web browser? Among other things, many browsers send a list of many installed apps. Have an iPhone or Android device? The companies know what apps you have. Windows error reporting is the same thing. Crash reporters for many apps send a list. The list of companies that collect this kind of data is extensive.

They even make you install two (2) browser plugins on your default browser.
I'm sure that's not because they want more datas at all.

EA the publisher is without a doubt evil, but I love microsoft.
http://www.destructoid.com/15-reasons-why-ea-is-pure-evil-66852.phtml

(I have origin and the two plugins on my computer right now to play the bf3 beta and it feels so dirty!)

If you are sufficiently concerned, run the game in a VM.

Vmware claim that their virtualisation (Vmware Workstation) has the best support for Hardware accelerated graphics, in Windows at least; I use vmware but I don't run any games in it (so I can't tell you).