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After the Sony rootkit, now it seems we might have the EA spyware. Some people just never learn from the mistakes of others

h__p://www.techspot.com/news/23236-Battlefield-2142-to-include-spyware.html

h__p://www.kotaku.com/gaming/centipedes/battlefield-2142-with-a-dash-of-spyware-207955.php

When you open the box, a big slip of paper falls out first, preceeding any discs or manuals. The slip of paper says, essentially, that 2142 includes monitoring software which runs while your computer is online, and records "anonymous" information like your IP address, surfing habits (probably via cookie scans), and other "computing habits" in order to report this information back to ad companies and ad servers, which generates in-game ads.