Dear EA Communtiy member: Seen from my own ICT professional and legal point of view:
I think EA customers have asked and waited long enough for EA to re-designed this privacy invading behaviour of their "APP"
How about taking a whole fresh and different approach and collectively begin to report this unwanted, undocumented, untransparent malicious
malware/spyware like DESIGNED! "EAP-APP" behaviour to the propper legal, computer-security and privacy respecting authorities around the world?
A - In the EU I guess this kind of "APP-behaviour" violates a lot of GDPR dataprotection guidelines and laws:
Links to relevant resources:
- https://gdpr.eu/what-is-gdpr/
- https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A32016R0679
B - Contact the local "Cybercrime Fighting division of your own governments" ?
- https://www.ic3.gov/
- https://www.interpol.int/Crimes/Cybercrime
- https://www.europol.europa.eu/crime-areas-and-statistics/crime-areas/cybercrime
C - How about getting EFF and WIRED attention for this?: (i'm sure they love a good data privacy r*ping story)
- https://www.eff.org/
- https://www.wired.com/
Question: Is anyone here old enough to remember the Sony Rootkit case?
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
- https://www.csoonline.com/article/553369/sony-bmg-rootkit-scandal-10-years-later.html
NOTE: "We The Gamers" - bought our games back in the days with a perfectly working Origin launcher that we could fully adjust and control:
EA now has decided - without! our! consent! - to kind of (socially) "hack" OUR OWNED COMPUTERS and thereby force us to give up our original launchers and start to use their buggy EA_APP ? Now tell me - on how many fronts (legally, technically, ethically, options 4,5,6) does this breach computer security and consumer-protection law(s)?
"We The Games" need to start playing this EA-APP modification game at an entirely different level folks...
