No need. They’ve collated freely available information. There’s nothing wrong with that.
Read the fine print more? Your characters are not your data. They’re blizzards data. You agreed to the ToS just like everyone else. Your problem is with Blizzard. Ask for blizzard to stop releasing their API. Stop getting mad at the nerd who just wrote down the information.
wow i’m glad someone finally brought up raider io, no one’s ever discussed that on the forums before
The data is pulled from Armory which is public anyway. RIO just makes it massively easier to access. I can hover my mouse over someone AFK in the city and know exactly what Mythic+ dungeons they’ve completed, at what level, and how many times. That’s incredible.
For making groups for M+ in the LFG utility, it saves me SO much time from having to alt-tab to Armory and look up someone’s gear, what dungeons they’ve completed at which keys, what raid bosses they have down at what difficulty levels and whether they’re all gemmed and enchanted appropriately.
RIO is a god send.
O’matey.
Legal in your country and mine are definitely different.
Ethics and legality are always sometimes, different
why? Legality is based on functional rules for interactions within a society.
Ethics is based on what the majority would consider ‘fair’ or ‘unfair’
Yea, this is pointless. I am not mad. I just take security and privacy seriously.
Take it easy.
Which country makes making data you own public illegal? Considering you own nothing on your Blizzard account and none of the information made public is identifying in any way?
Yes it is. None of it is manually entered. It uses blizzards API.
This is why you don’t see China on there.
no twisting of context allowed.
I’d consider it fair and ethical to look at information and put it in a more digestible format for those interested.
Everyone has access to this information. There’s nothing unethical about sharing freely available information with others. As I said above, if they stole the information… then I’m with you. They didn’t. They just read the free morning newspaper and are sharing the information with others in a better format.
I think that’s fair, which is why I’d rather the system just be internal within the game. Just like arena ratings.
I can agree with that 
China I would bet. That’s why you don’t see them on there.
as do I
eye eye eye 10
Blizzard doesn’t even run WoW in China so I’m not sure why you think that is a gotcha.
Your personal security and privacy is just fine. Your character and all it’s data belongs to Blizzard.
Ethics are subjective. There is no definitive answer to this question.
With the changes coming in shadowlands with M+ dungeons the program will become obsolete. And yes you gatekeepers did it to yourselves.
Okay. Well, this topic is about raider.io, which uses blizzards API.
API requests cannot retrieve global information from the China partition, and vice versa.
I would assume this is because they made it unlawful to share that data outside of China, or maybe even inside.
But cool.
Never doubt player ingenuity 
I don’t gatekeep anything, I just don’t see a problem with it. There’s nowhere in the rules that states you must accept any and all players into your groups.
What PII is raiderio sharing of yours?
Blizzard owns your character technically you’re just renting use. They can do whatever they like.