Quote Originally Posted by aiqa View Post
Since there isn't a good reasons for the data collection, opt-out is also against EU law. GPDR sets requirements for processing personal data. FFlogs and tomestone are most likely to small to ever get into problems with that, but it's still not a great look.
Indeed. I doubt any court would bother with a small fan project for an online game, at least not as long as irl home addresses or actual phone numbers etc. stay out of it at least. However, these laws exist for good reason and it wouldn't hurt if programmers would take a minute to consider these reasons, and if they really want to do a thing that would be straight up illegal if they'd be a huge media company and not just a small group of passionable volunteers. Not because of possible legal repercussions, just because maybe all these politicians and privacy advocates who created these laws in a lengthy process were on to something good.