Did Saudi Arabia spend billions on EA Games to get Canadians' Data?

It is the biggest leveraged buyout in history.

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) just bought EA Games: one of the world’s biggest video game companies.

PIF joined forces with two American investment firms (one run by Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner) to buy the gaming giant for $55 billion.

But this could be about a lot more than just video games.

EA has more than 700 million players worldwide, and it’s collecting vast amounts of data on them.

What are the national security and privacy implications of a foreign sovereign wealth fund controlling a company with all that data?

And given EA has a Canadian subsidiary with Canadian employees and, of course, Canadian players — how has the Canadian government scrutinized this deal?

Host: Gemma Boothroyd

Credits: Gemma Boothroyd (Reporter), Bruce Thorson (Senior Producer), Chad Galloway (Audio Editing & Production), Jesse Brown (Editor and Publisher)

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