Eve’s API doesn’t inherently violate privacy.
It does, however, allow people to grant access to others, to look at their information.
Most in-game corporations have taken this to the extreme, requiring access to everything, in the hopes of reducing spies.
Those corporations may be violating privacy. However, you do not need to join them. Thus ESI does not violate your privacy.
(I’m saying ESI, rather than SSO, because by itself, all the SSO does is prove you control a character)
I’ve known some players who’ve stopped playing because this has become so common, and even some who say they won’t even try the game due to the rumors they’ve heard about the things corps require to join.
Most of those rumors were exaggerated, but you have to wonder if there is a net gain or loss on Subs over the how effective spies are and the controls CCP has enabled to allow players to counter them.
Not much you can do about operational spying though except for practicing good opsec.
Then don’t? No one is forcing you.
I’ll see your PFUDOR, and raise you:
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