#Collecting players personal info for no reason??

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jade verge
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so we're logging the players address now?

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unreal meadow
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fr

dreamy leaf
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New Referee update! Got to love it

unreal meadow
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@hollow path could you explain what this is?

unreal meadow
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no answer.

past rain
unreal meadow
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But it doesn't say anything in there tos abt streetaddress

past rain
zealous pewterBOT
unreal meadow
autumn skiff
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They sell our info trust!

past rain
autumn skiff
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Our info is on dark web now

dusk ginkgo
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Ip ban?

autumn skiff
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they are logging email addresses and addresses so it would be more then just a ip ban

dim bloom
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hi guys

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skibidi sex here

dim bloom
dim bloom
urban badger
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Contradicts it’s self

jade verge
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Collecting players personal info for no reason??

unreal meadow
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what??????

ivory solstice
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I'm pretty sure they can't do that without having a change to their privacy policy, which should notify people of what's been changed.

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Definitely a concern that should be brought up if true.

urban badger
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They did, they covered it up in a update push

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and not mentioning it anywhere besides on that document

ivory solstice
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Yeah pretty sure they're not allowed to that.

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They'd have to clearly outline in their policies what's being collected.

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Which would require them to send an email letting people know this has been changed and what.

urban badger
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Emails are not required at all

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Just letting the general public know there is a change is all that’s required

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Which is stated by the “promoted to install Referee prerequisites”

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Dumb

ivory solstice
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Really?

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That sucks.

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I would've assumed by law they'd have to state what data they'd be collecting.

Most companies usually send out emails along the lines of "We've changed our Privacy Policy, which goes into effect at (DATE)."

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Does this new data collection apply to all platforms?

broken agate
broken agate
# urban badger Contradicts it’s self

I think you're misunderstanding. Biometric information is not your name, email, address, etc. It's your fingerprint, face, or retinal scan. There's no contradiction in what you posted.

jade verge
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okay thank you for finally someone bringing a proper answer

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but doesnt that still mean they‘re allowed to collect it

broken agate
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I don't see why they would collect it, honestly. Or even how. I can understand it needing to be in the TOS because you need to give a billing address to use a credit card and that sort of thing. But for the anti-cheat to collect it wouldn't make sense - where would they even get it from? I certainly don't have my address stored on my PC somewhere.

urban badger
ivory solstice
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What the hell?

hollow path
# broken agate This isn't from the Referee anti-cheat, it's [part of certificate validation cod...

This is correct. Just because someone found a word in our code does not mean we’re gathering that information, much less sending it to our severs. OP redacted the next lines to imply it’s their personal info, but that’s deliberate fear mongering. Referee gathers some information to help us identify and block alt accounts, but we don’t share your personal info except in the very narrow situations explained in our TOS - and we never sell it.

ivory solstice
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Not OP but thank you for responding.

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That actually gives me a lot of trust about that, was a little concerning.

tardy viper
dreamy leaf
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that's not in libcurl

broken agate
ivory solstice
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...also.

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You do realise you use an email on your account right?

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They have your email. 😆

jade verge
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true thats actually quite a dumb question

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I think we can close this thread now that we got the answer by a dev

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thanks @hollow path for clearing things up

ivory solstice
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Yeah this can be closed.

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It's good that they actually responded head on.

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Most devs would plug their ears.

dreamy leaf
dreamy leaf
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but ig that clears up the strings so

ivory solstice
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Do I know what libcurl is and why it's there? Hell no, don't ask me. I know nothing about how Rec Room works.

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But the dev and other commenters here have explained why.

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And even the developer above said "Referee gathers some information to help us identity and block alt accounts, but we don't share your personal info except in the very narrow situations explained in our TOS - and we never sell it."

tight dirge
novel dragon
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Someone is just Find someone’s USER ID and then hack into the files and get their address, this is basically doxxing wtf

worthy oyster
# urban badger

Biometric is stuff like DNA, fingerprints, eye, face, and stuff like that

dim bloom
ivory solstice
dim bloom
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which they use because they need to get the Referee.dll which then they load it on the process