Steam processes anonymous data about your habits, usage patterns, and demographics — both individually and in groups — and can share this with third parties indefinitely, with no stated limit on who receives it or what they do with it.
Your usage patterns and demographic data are shared with unspecified third parties in allegedly anonymous form, with no stated deletion schedule or restriction on recipients — and modern re-identification techniques mean 'anonymous' data from a platform this large carries real re-identification risk.
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Compare across platforms →The policy claims this data 'does not allow identification' but provides no technical description of the anonymization method, and there is no stated retention limit or restriction on which third parties can receive it — creating risk of re-identification and indefinite data retention.
REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: GDPR Recital 26 and Article 29 WP Opinion 05/2014 on anonymization techniques establish that data is only truly anonymous if re-identification is not 'reasonably likely' — a standard that is increasingly difficult to meet with large-scale behavioral datasets. CCPA §1798.145(a)(5) requires that deidentified data must be protected by reasonable safeguards and contractual prohibitions on re-identification. FTC Act Section 5 applies to deceptive anonymization claims that cannot withstand technical scrutiny.
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