Epic in hot water over Steam-scraping code
They already got caught scraping code with these computer programs and sending data to the Chinese.
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/03/19/epic-in-hot-water-over-steam-scraping-code/
Reddit user notte_m_portent alerted Fortnite users to alleged suspicious activity in the Epic Game Launcher, which controls the Fortnite software. They claimed that it was watching other processes on the machine, reading root certificates, and storing hardware information in the registry, among other things.
https://www.reddit.com/r/PhoenixPoint/comments/b0rxdq/epic_game_store_spyware_tracking_and_you/
EPIC games got caught sending data to the Chinese after the Tencent acquisition. >>9037203