Quote Originally Posted by Setesh45 View Post
I agree, but I also cannot deny their benefits. If you don't have anything to hide, you have nothing to fear. :P
I am very glad Yoshi-P and by extension at least part of Square Enix take a very principled stance on this (sadly not all of Square Enix, as evidenced by their use of intrusive DRM and Anti-Cheat measures in some of their other games).
It doesn't matter if people got nothing to hide, what's on your computer is still no one's business but yourself. No one allows strangers into their home either. If someone has nothing to hide, then congratulations, you are lucky to belong to a group that needn't worry about such things. But because that's not true for everyone, it is a right worth defending on principle, even if it is over something as "pointless" as a video game scanning your computer for botting software.