Does a "World of Warcraft" EULA compliance mechanism count as spyware?

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An anti-cheating mechanism deployed by Blizzard Software for use by players of their popular game, World of Warcraft, has been discovered to collect information about gamers' running Windows environment, and report that back to the server. If gamers were warned in advance - albeit with very fine print - does that make it exempt from privacy concerns?

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"The Warden" was used by Sony Online Entertainment for their game Star Wars Galaxies before World of Warcraft was even released.