If EA is bought, merged, or goes bankrupt, all of your personal data collected over the years can be transferred to the new owner, and EA will only ask for your consent if the law specifically requires it.
All your personal data held by EA — including gameplay history, device fingerprints, purchase records, and voice recordings — can be transferred to an acquiring company or bankruptcy trustee without your advance consent, unless specifically required by law.
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Compare across platforms →A new corporate owner acquiring EA's entire user database would inherit detailed gaming profiles, purchase histories, device fingerprints, and communications records for hundreds of millions of users, potentially with different privacy standards than EA's current policy.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: This provision implicates GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) (legitimate interests as legal basis for transfer in corporate transactions) and Art. 14 (notification obligations for data obtained indirectly, which would apply to a new controller receiving EA's user database); CCPA/CPRA §1798.100 (right to know about data transfers); and FTC Act Section 5 (deceptive practices if post-acquisition data use deviates materially from EA's current privacy commitments — see FTC enforcement action in connection with Facebook/WhatsApp acquisition). The FTC holds primary enforcement authority.
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