He is a blood elf paladin and you know it.
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All I said it would cut down on multiple alts trolling…reading way to much in what I wrote…at bear minimum should have bnet tag imo
I feel like only the glory that is a Human Male Paladin fits for him.
With anime hair.
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As with any business, your personal information is also an asset of Blizzard and will become part of our normal business records.
As with any business, your personal information is also an asset of Blizzard and will become part of our normal business records.
As with any business, your personal information is also an asset of Blizzard and will become part of our normal business records.
What in the ever living frack?!?!
MY INFO IS NOT A BLIZZARD ASSET
I DID NOT SELL YOU MY INFO
I PURCHASED YOUR GAME
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this is highly irresponsible and dangerous.
some of us have names so unique, it would be extremely easy for anyone with half a brain to find us.
I don’t need random angry nerds from the wow forums knowing my home address.
I would have 0 objections to this.
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Technically if they want to play that game I can raise a GDPR stink about it, but I’d probably just stop using the forums.
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I disabled RealID in my settings long ago when the option became available. Even longer ago, back during the 2010 Blizzard push for this, I also added parental controls to my account, because at the time, it was thought to be the nuclear option to make sure RealID didn’t inadvertently appear anywhere. I have those controls on my account to this day.
I’m not against RealID implementation because I want to be a forum troll. I’m against it because there are many real-world instances of salty gamers harassing, doxxing, stalking, or worse to fellow gamers they have a beef with, and I have zero interest taking part in any game that would make that slightly easier for it to happen.
Implementing Btags on the forums gives a similar effect of posters no longer hiding behind different characters for anonymity. I’ll gladly swap the occasional Btag friend request to turn down over RL harassment over disagreements in a game. If the policy is intended to stop people from sh*tposting altogether because the onus would be on their RL name, I politely point to Facebook where civility is nonexistent and real names are often used. RealID would not be a cure-all policy and would come with added RL risk to players by their unstable peers.
As a note to all fellow players, if you currently re-log into the forums or launcher, you have to agree to this policy. I don’t know if you have already agreed to this policy if you have remained logged in. Be aware.
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Pretty sure that one means that by having your name, billing address, and credit card info saved to Blizzard’s servers, your information is classified as an asset and protected as such. Like, if anyone obtains your credit card info by hacking into Blizzard’s servers, Blizzard can sue the ever-loving hell out of them.
Wonder if people would be more polite if they had to show their faces? 
reading it now
“we may also disclose your personal information to a third party if we decide to sell a line of business to that third party”
really not a fan of this
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except the first line of that clause
Blizzard will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Policy.
WE CAN DO WHAT WE WANT IF WE WRITE IT DOWN BECAUSE THATS HOW CONTRACTS WORK IN ACTI’S WORLD
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I am glad I live in California… I opted out of their storing of my info. 
Hopefully someday the rest of The US can get on board with California and the CCPA to protecting internet users from predatory online corporations storing their user data and information and the selling and sharing of that info to other companies or marketing corporations.
Also it may be possible even if you’re not a California resident, try using the links in the california residences section of the rules above, and opt out and have your data used for marketing removed here: https://us.battle.net/support/en//help/wf/services/1328/1331
Worth a shot, but probably not when the customer service person sees that your account address isn’t in california.
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I think the more likely outcome is we would see a lot of people stop posting out of concerns for other people doxxing them.
and then a bunch of people being rude because they’re using a fake name on their account anyway.
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EU beat CA.
GDPR.
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true but it would be quieter 
I’m pretty sure CA came after GDPR. I think Europe led the charge there.
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I imagine it would get so quiet that the forums would be pretty useless =P
Wanna bet that Blizz sells US customer data in the EU?
Not really… the CCPA is pretty much the exact same thing… here’s a comparion chart between the two: https://www.bakerlaw.com/webfiles/Privacy/2018/Articles/CCPA-GDPR-Chart.pdf
in fact, looking at the two, it seems CA beats EU in the opt-out process. California has a superior method as businesses/online websites are forced to have a data collection opt-out option visible, unlike for the EU where it doesn’t have any requirements for the businesses to comply with or specifically offer to you an option to opt-out… Usually for me, when I visit certain websites or sign into a game for the first time, I get a clear and specific prompt or banner to opt out of data collection.
I would love to see an official statement from blizzard on whether or not they plan on exposing our real names on the forums.
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