Comment The Steam study that collects private data? (Score 1) 127
That Steam "study" claims to collect hardware information for being processed anonymized.
However, when looking at the details of the data it sends to Valve, here are the last 3 items:
* the operating system installation date
* a hash of the MAC address
* a hash of the serial number of the disk
That information doesn't make the data anonymous at all. Intead they allow to identify a particular machine. This is a violation of privacy. If Valve is really processing the rest of the data anonymously, it doesn't need those items. The claim of processing the data anymously is just misleading.
More details (screenshots): https://twitter.com/omengue/st...