“When you use our Services, we or third parties may use cookies and similar technologies, collect data about or from your machine or device, which may include a machine "fingerprint" or "hash" of your machine components...for fraud prevention, security, cheat detection, and authentication purposes.”
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This establishes that EA's data collection can extend to hardware-level device identification, enabling persistent identification of a device even if other identifiers are cleared.
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Your device's hardware characteristics may be collected and used by EA or third parties to identify it for anti-fraud and anti-cheat purposes.
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"When you use our Services, we or third parties may use cookies and similar technologies, collect data about or from your machine or device, which may include a machine "fingerprint" or "hash" of your machine components...for fraud prevention, security, cheat detection, and authentication purposes.Excerpt from EA's Privacy and Cookie Policy
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This establishes that EA's data collection can extend to hardware-level device identification, enabling persistent identification of a device even if other identifiers are cleared.
Your device's hardware characteristics may be collected and used by EA or third parties to identify it for anti-fraud and anti-cheat purposes.
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