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Origin Auto-Adds Steam EA Games

[Feb 28, 2012, 10:47 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

EA's Origin service can automatically find EA games on your system and add them to your Origin profile, reports Day One Patch, as a user reports finding a copy of Dead Space 2 purchased through Steam in their Origin account. In reporting this news, Joystiq has declared the process benign: "Origin is known to check out the file names on users' computers -- without reading or transmitting any private information back to EA, of course -- and it now uses that power to streamline your EA games lists. In other words, EA is using its power for good. And to better market its own titles."

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Re: Origin Auto-Adds Steam EA Games

Feb 28, 2012, 11:31

Creston

Teddy wrote on Feb 28, 2012, 11:12: Creston wrote on Feb 28, 2012, 11:00: I'm pretty sure that I never allowed EA to scan my system at will, Origin EULA wrote: 2. Consent to Collection and Use of Data. You agree that EA may collect, use, store and transmit technical and related information that identifies your computer (including the Internet Protocol Address), operating system, Application usage (including but not limited to successful installation and/or removal), software, software usage and peripheral hardware, that may be gathered periodically to facilitate the provision of software updates, dynamically served content, product support and other services to you, including online services If you agreed to Origin's EULA, then you did exactly that. Is a EULA binding if I never read it? Many law professors and judges say that it can't be binding if people are expected to never read it. It's still a legal gray area. Creston

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