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{{Main|Nintendo changing their Privacy and Policy, block user's data until they approve, making some account inaccessible in the process}}

On May 6, 2025 Nintendo changed their Privacy and Policy. The changes are added for the new GameChat feature. In the process of changing the policy, any user cannot touch/access their data unless they accept. Another issue is that for certain account, you cannot accept the new Privacy and Policy making the account inaccessible.

Additionally, these policies<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Nintendo |title=Nintendo Privacy Policy |url=https://accounts.nintendo.com/term/privacy_policy/US?lang=en-US |access-date=May 9, 2025 |website=Nintendo Accounts}}</ref> reserve the right for Nintendo to disable functionality on consoles consumers paid for,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Nightingale |first=Ed |date=May 9, 2025 |title=Nintendo reserves the right to brick your console following "unauthorised use", in bid to prevent piracy |url=https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-reserves-the-right-to-brick-your-console-following-unauthorised-use-in-bid-to-prevent-piracy |access-date=May 9, 2025 |website=Eurogamer}}</ref> affecting owners of both generations of Nintendo Switch, effectively granting the company the right to "brick" the console. Nintendo claims this is accomplished as a measure to halt piracy for software on both generations of [[Nintendo Switch]] hardware, however due to how vague these terms are defined, simple software being run for diagnostics from a non-authorized repair shop could be treated in the eyes of Nintendo as the equivalent said shop trying to rip games from the console to commit piracy.