Pretty much all anticheat is kernel level because that's where hacks are now, it was not a new thing when vanguard came out either, it had been like this for ye

Pretty much all anticheat is kernel level because that's where hacks are now, it was not a new thing when vanguard came out either, it had been like this for years already. Not that it matters that much for data privacy if you game on the same user anyway as userspace anticheat can access all your users data.