"We also urge limiting the distribution of this game in other countries due to its toxicity, potential data collection of users, and the potential use of money raised from game purchases to conduct a war against Ukraine," Bornyakov's statement continues. The "potential data collection of users" part of this sentence refers to a previous statement on developer Mundfish's website, revealing it would collect data from Atomic Heart users on behalf of the Russian government.
When asked by GamesRadar+ for clarification surrounding the collection of data, Mundfish said this was an outdated portion of their website, and denied the data harvesting completely. After the statement was issued to GamesRadar+, the entire section of Mundfish's website pertaining to the data collection was deleted.
I mean, most companies whose services I use on a daily basis gather my data on behalf of the US government. I don’t really care what the Russian government does with my data, they don’t have cops that can drag me away like the US does.
It's probably a lot more relevant to Ukraine. Even simple stuff like peak playing hours or amount of time played could prove to be useful to intelligence analysts, especially if anything is personally identifiable.
Not a great look tbh
I mean, most companies whose services I use on a daily basis gather my data on behalf of the US government. I don’t really care what the Russian government does with my data, they don’t have cops that can drag me away like the US does.
It's probably a lot more relevant to Ukraine. Even simple stuff like peak playing hours or amount of time played could prove to be useful to intelligence analysts, especially if anything is personally identifiable.
Pretty much every always online game collects telemetry from players. Sometimes startlingly specific, personally identifiable information.
That said, it should be trivially easy to see if the game is sending out information or not.