Re:Riot uses League of Legends chatlogs to weed out toxic em...
by doktrin on Friday June 10, 2016 @05:52PM
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Genuine question : isn't there a more objective standard to be appealed to than perception? Is that really the only thing that's stopping Google from snooping through their own employees private emails, or from reselling them to the highest bidder?
You're trying to reason this through from a technology perspective, which is not how others are thinking about it. What matters more is the perception, not the software that makes it happen. We think of Gchat, email and hangouts as private communication. But playing an online game is more like being in a public space, so we have less expectation of privacy. Online games already have mechanisms for reporting toxic players, so you know going in: someone else may look at what I said.