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Gebinsel 31/mai./2020 às 19:49
MAC-Adress in Steam Hardware Survey
When I recently started Steam, it asked me if I'd like to take part in a hardware survey. Scanning my system, do give details to game developers, so they can consider the average hardware of steam users. So far so good.

Positively I must remark, that you get shown the gathered hardware information, before it is sent so you can still decline. But somehow i feel fooled, when realizing, that the MAC-Adress of my system is therefor considered of any relevance and sent. Yes. It is still anonym like said, but somehow i don't see why this is of any relevance, while opening the possibility making you easy identifiable.
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Escrito originalmente por wuddih:
Escrito originalmente por endrsgm:
you mean besides all of the hardware id's they collected?
you make it sound like a hardware id is something special and personal identifiable

it is not, it is literally compiling an identifier out of stuff of what the developer that uses their generated hardware id thinks is relevant to compile that most possibly unique identifier.

it is not like anyone else can do something with anyones hardware id of service xyz because that thing is entirely useless outside of the service xyz used.

also. did you know GDPR exists and you can request all saved data about yourself from Valve?

of which most is accessible here:
https://help.steampowered.com/en/accountdata

and for some games and as a wink, Valve can only collect such data about Valve games.
https://steamcommunity.com/my/gcpd/730/ csgo
https://steamcommunity.com/my/gcpd/440/ tf2
https://steamcommunity.com/my/gcpd/570/ dota2
https://steamcommunity.com/my/gcpd/1046930/ dolul
https://steamcommunity.com/my/gcpd/583950/ ricochet, j/k.

that shall be all.

aside from this ...
the hw survey information is anonymized. no one at Valve can tell that some specific Steam account sent some specific hardware data. and what also was probably not mentioned yet:
the mac address is not sent, but a hash of it, which is entirely useless for anyone non-Valve until you brute force out the value, which you have to do for every single hwreport because the hash is definitely salted.
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Judgmental Amaterasu 1/ago./2020 às 13:44 
Escrito originalmente por Muppet among Puppets:
Just read somehwere else "we dont sell your personal details, but if you live in california you can opt in to not have your details sold in the future".
And for steam, a mac address in a hardware survey?

Some people really need to stop looking for the boogeyman in everything.
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