Do you guys live under a rock? EAC has been in the game since launch and you’ve had it since you’ve downloaded New World (or possibly for years if you’ve played any other game). Sometimes programs require updates, so…that’s what happened. Also, all of you agreed to have an Anti-Cheat program running on your computer when you purchased and launched the game. Like cmon lol
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Shhhh, don’t tell them, they can’t handle it 
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Unless you ARE cheating you have nothing to worry about.
Maybe you don’t do anything important on your computer and monitoring does not matter to you
Maybe, or maybe I wouldn’t be playing games on hardware that has vulnerable information and wouldnt even have it connected to the internet…
Playing on a work computer in the first place seems like a YOU problem.
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Maybe you’re an overly paranoid, uninformed user who doesn’t read requirements & agreements before installing programs such as multiplayer games which all (for the most part) require some sort of AC. The most common being EAC. A quick google search of EAC will lead you to the company’s website, try it!
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any data collected that is identifying needs to made available, at least for Europeans who have GDPR
Wrong place to make this stand, no one here cares about European laws. You might get some cookie cutter reply from customer support with a cute emoji at the end but that’s about it I’m sorry to say. 
lol yes, the US does not provide much consumer data protection
the privacy policy linked by mixednuts above has a portable data request link for europeans
If you are new to video games EAC might seem scary to you. It’s nothing new to the rest of us.
easyanticheat is the best anticheat you can get tbh
It’s a widely used and verified anti cheat software. Many games use it.
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Modern hacks don’t install them on the main machine. They use two machines.
It seems ok just to play the game and then restart afterwards as EAC only runs while the game is running.
Why did they spun it up as a separate third party app on an offshore domain?
Every domain is an offshore domain to someone.
Many of us do professional work on our gaming rigs. They are pretty good at video publishing among other tasks.
The fact that we have accepted EAC doesn’t mean we don’t. Get off your high horse.
How many levels of malware protection do you run? Do you go to gaming info sites on this device? Do you have a backup policy with detached, and off-site, data (like cloud AND local physical media). Have you run through restoration to make certain you aren’t exposed? Do you run scans to check for vulnerability at a system level?
There are more important practices than allowing an industry standard application anti cheat program.
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What other games do you play? Specifically, what other multiplayer games do you play?
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This is not uncommon for multiplayer games. PUBG has one too. The only people who should be mad are people who can longer run their bots. And people like me who can’t login to the server now…
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