Not to drag this too far off topic but a program that runs in tandem to a game and scans for exploits and cheats on said game. Passing information on whether said cheats were found or not to a authorised first/third party is hardly a gross invasion of privacy. IMHO the benefits far outweigh any privacy concern.
Now in our personal lives then yes I totally agree, invasion of your privacy especially of the kind that Bush sanctioned outside of judicial review is unforgivable. Likewise that of corporate intrusion on the scale of Sony’s rootkit. The similarity is that in these examples neither intrusion benefits you or me.
I get your point, I just don’t think it applies to the specifics of an anticheat solution. Have a 
and it won’t matter either way. 