Where in my post did I say it wasn't beneficial. I said it was harmless. If you can't even read a basic post and respond logically I'd imagine you need to worry about your own job not mine.
Oh i am sorry, I am not a native english speaker as it is my third language so i might have misread what you said, Can you please clarify what you meant when you posted this?Lol no
Where in my post did I say it wasn't beneficial. I said it was harmless. If you can't even read a basic post and respond logically I'd imagine you need to worry about your own job not mine.
Please tell me how that could give them an edge over steam I'm dying to know.
All of this outrage over friends list and games list. Like yeah the outrage seems very illogical to me. Again rationally speaking this is not a big deal. To me."Why can't you respond logically?" claims user who describes a Chinese-backed company collecting data without consent "harmless"
I mean, this could easily be used to find developers testing unreleased games with a Steam repo, and find their Steam account.
You can't really get better moneyhat research than that.
It's OK to be wrong sometimes. We all make mistakes. Sometimes I forget to put the milk back in the fridge, sometimes you excuse GDPR violating data collection practices as harmless, it happens to the best of us.
Well the OP already has a list of what data they are collecting and how to verify it so yeah that's pretty much it."The data we know they're collecting without consent is harmless" is the wrong response. The correct one is, "What other data are they collecting without consent?".
Do we even know if the app does this in GDPR countries yet? Shocker I know but the majority of the world doesn't live* in GDPR territories. It isn't some moral metric of data collection or some world wide bar that must be met.It's OK to be wrong sometimes. We all make mistakes. Sometimes I forget to put the milk back in the fridge, sometimes you excuse GDPR violating data collection practices as harmless, it happens to the best of us.
All of this outrage over friends list and games list. Like yeah the outrage seems very illogical to me. Again rationally speaking this is not a big deal. To me.
YuuuuuuuupEven if you didn't install it, one of your steam friends probably did which included you with it :O
This is the most fucked up part.Even if you didn't install it, one of your steam friends probably did which included you with it :O
Even if you didn't install it, one of your steam friends probably did which included you with it :O
But do you OWN a business tho?If we're using our work cred, well, I have experience in the field of data science. What they are doing is, at the very least, not ethical.
Hell, it's frustrating to think I (a lowly coder from a, by comparison to Epic, small and humble business) spent so many stressful hours trying to be GDPR-compliant despite the unlikeliness of us ever being targeted by fines, when huge companies with a money-printing machine like Fortnite can just flip the bird towards regulations willy-nilly.
Oh man, this is going to be PC Gamer's new headline tomorrow, isn't it?
It's actually all our fault to being people with characteristics and other things, if we were perfect blank slate nothing of this would have happened.
Technically yes lol
Incompetence: Valve lets other companies read your Steam info.Oh man, this is going to be PC Gamer's new headline tomorrow, isn't it?
More hyperbole. Please list said American laws this breaks. As this is where I live and where I'm posting from. GDPR is an extremely niche law effecting a minority of the webs population.Why should we allow any company to do covert illegal data collection?
And why do you support it?
More hyperbole. Please list said American laws this breaks. As this is where I live and where I'm posting from. GDPR is an extremely niche law effecting a minority of the webs population.
Do we even know if the app does this in GDPR countries yet? Shocker I know but the majority of the world doesn't live* in GDPR territories. It isn't some moral metric of data collection or some world wide bar that must be met.
Do we think Tencent insisted on this kind of strategy, and are receiving the data too?
Sure I understand. But to recommend something they need to know that game number 21032138 is X. They cannot do it without processing that data online. Unless they upload SteamsDB to your pc.
Do we think Tencent insisted on this kind of strategy, and are receiving the data too?
In retrospect this makes those comments about how EGS users not having Steam installed make much more sense in regards to how they could even track that.
The stupidest part though is that if they just had been upfront, most people would not care but instead they set this time bomb up for no reason.
your steam friend ID sure (which I think even private profiles might show--private mostly hides games & friends, right?). It wouldn't have the game/saves listing and stuff. Not as bad as, say, the Cambridge Analytica thing where FB let other people opt you in to full data remittance lol. That was a classic.Even if you didn't install it, one of your steam friends probably did which included you with it :O
Do we think Tencent insisted on this kind of strategy, and are receiving the data too?
More hyperbole. Please list said American laws this breaks. As this is where I live and where I'm posting from. GDPR is an extremely niche law effecting a minority of the webs population.