I would add that anti-cheat software, especially the kernel level ones, are intrusive and EULAs reflect on that.

Keeping that in mind, the EULA and Spyware in question here are far more broad and intrusive than any kernel level anticheat or any telemetry i have encountered before. This is not some tinfoil conspiracy, it's written right there for everyone to read. This is definitely not standard practice. At least for now. It will become standard practice if enough idiots will pay money to give up their privacy and security.

Since this was not there in the beginning then I think that's the reason why they changed the packaging and versioning of the game later on as well.

Have my gratitude for bringing this serious issue to light. No wonder they try to censor this.