kytbell wrote: ↑15 September 2022, 02:59
Same here for the first time tonight, also on my phone, connected to my Wi-Fi which is password-protected and does not reflect any additional user, Bluetooth on.
This is creepy as frick. Why should complete strangers know where I am? For European users, does this even meet GDPR regulations?
Maybe. I'm not a lawyer so, in my opinion: "Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual. Different pieces of information, which collected together can lead to the identification of a particular person, also constitute personal data."
"Examples of personal data: location data (for example the location data function on a mobile phone)"
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic ... al-data_en
So, in my opinion, if the system forces this information to be shown without prior consultation and does not give the possibility of hiding it, I thinks it is being violated. If that information is coming from real location data, it has not been previously consulted and does not give the possibility of hiding it.
And as indicated in the privacy policy, they collect "• Connection data when You access the Applications and use the Services (time and location of your activities, username and IP address, browsers and devices used);"
On the contrary, if that information comes from the fact that you have put the information about your city in the profile and checked the option to "share with other players" (
https://boardgamearena.com/preferences? ... ublicinfos), it would not be violating it.
And in that case, it is such unreliable data that it makes this function useless. (Good morning from Bouvet Island, a subantarctic, volcanic island, almost completely covered by glaciers and uninhabited
)
About transmitting this information to third parties for, for example, advertising (Purposes, 14) without prior consultation and without the explanation of a method to revoke this consent, I already have my doubts. And after seeing what has happened with Google and Facebook/Meta in recent years when they wanted to transfer their data to the USA (which have less strict regulations than the EU), I also have doubts about that notice that the data can be transferred to USA or China. But this is already an issue for a lawyer to analyze and not for me, who just woke up and I still haven't had breakfast...
In the privacy policy are the data of the Data Protection Officer (DPO), in case you want to consult it.
What I can tell you for sure: it's very creepy and it's unnecessary. This is not a social network or a dating app.
