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@nas76

As an EU based company it is worth bringing up with them WHY they need to have access to your contacts and internet usage.  The EU-wide GDPR laws are very strict on what EU companies can do with data and what data they can collect. These laws came in to force in May 2018.

This UK site lays out the laws (they will be pretty much the same in Finland)

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/principles/

The interesting point to the OP is section 5(1) part (b)

“(b) collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes and not further processed in a manner that is incompatible with those purposes; further processing for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes shall not be considered to be incompatible with the initial purposes (‘purpose limitation’);”

Therefore Rovio cannot collect any data from you unless they have a specific and legitimate need for it.  Your MAC address and app usage history etc would be legitimate, your phone book is most definitely not.

It should not matter whether you play the game in the EU, USA or Timbuktu, Rovio as a Finnish company must comply with these laws.