Ubisoft BUSTED: €92 Million Fine for Spying on Players

A powerful European privacy group, NOYB (None Of Your Business). They have officially filed a legal complaint against the Assassin’s Creed and Far Cry publisher, accusing Ubisoft of breaching General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws and secretly harvesting player data during single-player sessions.
At the heart of this storm was a lone Far Cry Primal player who dared to ask Ubisoft what data they were collecting. The response opened up quite the... can of worms. Ubisoft admitted to the basics — like game launch times and session lengths — but a deeper investigation revealed far more alarming behavior going on under the hood: the game made 150 server connections within just 10 minutes, even though it was supposedly just a "single-player" offline experience. The NOYB calls this "secret data collection" — a direct violation of GDPR's requirement that all data collection must be necessary and transparent. OOF, Ubisoft. Big OOF!

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