EA's Origin and your personal information

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**Necroshea**

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. EA may also use this information combined with personal information for marketing purposes and to improve our products and services. We may also share that data with our third party service providers in a form that does not personally identify you. IF YOU DO NOT WANT EA TO COLLECT, USE, STORE, TRANSMIT OR DISPLAY THE DATA DESCRIBED IN THIS SECTION, PLEASE DO NOT INSTALL OR USE THE APPLICATION. This and all other data provided to EA and/or collected by EA in connection with your installation and use of this Application is collected, used, stored and transmitted in accordance with EA's Privacy Policy located at www.ea.com. To the extent that anything in this section conflicts with the terms of EA's Privacy Policy, the terms of the Privacy Policy shall control.

So how do you guys feel about this? I was pretty neutral about origin before, but now things are much much different. They pretty much say that by installing Origin they can take any info they want from your computer at any time, including personal info, and use it towards whatever purposes they wish, as well as give it out to third parties. If you want to opt out, you have to uninstall the program.

Here's a link with a bit more info
http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/112559-Internet-Explodes-Over-Origins-Invasion-of-Privacy

Also sorry if this topic has been made before. The search function isn't working for me.

**johnscott10**

Yea I seen this and iv had Origin on my comp a few times. Each time its been removed.

I highly doubt ill install it now.

**LordofHats**

See here: http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/392778.page

See my last post.