EA Updates Their Privacy Policy
Elysium (Sean) over at Gamers With Jobs (who has written part one of a multi-part series on EA here, and it's excellent) gave me a heads-up that EA has, in fact, changed their Privacy Policy.Here's the important change:
Xbox Live
If you sign up to play EA games through Microsoft’s Xbox Live Service, Microsoft will provide your Xbox Live user account information to EA so that we can establish an EA Online account for you. You need an EA Online account to play EA’s Xbox Live titles. By signing up to play EA’s Xbox Live titles, you agree that Microsoft can transfer limited user account information to EA. Information transferred from Microsoft to EA for example includes your name, address, e-mail address and date of birth but does not include credit card number or other financial account information.
That bold in the last sentence is my own, not EA's. Full policy available here.
I bust EA's chops all the time for doing stupid things (because they do), but they clarified what was potentially a serious concern with their Privacy Policy and also closed the door on the possibility of collecting credit card information from Xbox Live accounts in the future. And they did so promptly.
In short, they did the right thing. Two words I normally don't use in conjunction with EA: well-done.
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