Claims Emerge of Illegal Data Collection by Ubisoft in Offline Games

Privacy advocacy group noyb has filed a formal complaint against game developer and publisher Ubisoft, accusing the company of unlawfully collecting data from players of single-player games. These titles are meant to be played without interacting with others, yet Ubisoft still requires an online connection and forces users to log in with a Ubisoft account, according to noyb. The organization was founded by well-known privacy activist Max Schrems.

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