Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently deleted for inactivity

Re:Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently dele... by Anthony-G on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:39AM (#36846250)

I’m in Europe so I’m more familiar with GDPR than privacy regulations for other jurisdictions but it would be a gross abuse/misinterpretation of GDPR to use it as an excuse for closing down accounts of customers who have already paid for their games. GDPR does require data controllers to remove data subjects from their database but only if there is no legitimate reason to keep their account information.

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Re:Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently dele... by ivan_gammel on Monday July 24, 2023 @07:55AM (#36846418)

Active account is a legitimate reason. Inactive account and no explicit consent to keep the data -> no evidence that customer still wants to keep the data -> no legitimate reason -> better be deleted.

As a child you may leave your toy in playground, return back in 1 hour and it may still be there. If you come back in 10 years it would be an unjustified expectation to find it there. As an adult you buy a property, abandon it and in 30-40 years it is no longer yours. Why in the digital world it should not be the same?

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Re:Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently dele... by eviks on Monday July 24, 2023 @08:52AM (#36847184)

The answer is pretty obvious - because the digital world is fundamentally different, and you toy doesn't occupy any playground space, and also it's not publicly accessible, and you haven't paid for your toy to stay they, etc

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Re:Ubisoft account -including games- can be permanently dele... by Bluecobra on Monday July 24, 2023 @09:40AM (#36847821)

Except I never abandoned my copy of Far Cry 4. A better analogy would be a book on a shelf. I may not read a book I bought 10 years ago but I may revisit it anytime.

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