Also wasn’t an NG private disciplined for things he said on his Facebook related to the protests this year?
Well i do and i have never been threatened or lost a job over the ideas i have about the world. I express myself and i am fully responsible for what i write.
So my next question that comes into my mind?
What do you have to hide?
“Nothing has happened to me so it’s not possible” is a bad take.
It’s not about having something to hide, it’s about not having your information made public. That’s the key issue here.
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Probably. Military regs are pretty specific about what you can and cannot do on social media.
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They…they can’t possibly be this stupid to make this same mistake again…can they???
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None of YOUR business. And that is the entire point. But if you can’t see that then sure go right ahead and let everyone see your real name and personally identifiable information.
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Take how stupid you think Blizzard are, and realize they’re far dumber than that. That’s the reality of management there.
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It is, but you know, the sky is falling, it always is. So far as I can tell if you turn off Real ID in your privacy settings the only thing that can be displayed is your Battle Tag.
So far as sharing your email etc., heck, most MVDs sell contact information all of the time. My email is whitelist only, if you aren’t on my whitelist you can’t email me, pretty much the same on my phones 
Any mail I’m not expecting goes directly into my shredder.
You talking RealID? Or MoP 2.0?
Having to opt out is bad for new users, and still showing your BTag means people can harass you more easily than just your character name and more thoroughly. That’s the problem.
“People sell your information anyway so it doesn’t matter if it’s made public” is a bad response.
Yes.
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Anything you put online or in the cloud is subject to compromise, even if you encrypt everything, like I do. That is just a common sense approach to the internet.
It is virtually impossilble to keep email/phone numbers/addresses private. The best you can do is to “deny all and allow by exception” as a policy, one that I follow. With public records availability you’d have to be really reall off grid for a long time to not have any information out there. And I’m guessing most of the people here are on Reddit, Facebook, Google Groups, or what have you so their information is in the wind already.
Do I like it, no I don’t, but it is the reality. If we start imposing some of the privacy rules like the GPDR, that would be a start. But good luck getting that through congress Fortunately we benefit at least a bit from the GPDR since the big companies have to follow in in the EU.
Here is some of that sky:
- Consumer protection laws such as the Federal Trade Commission Act (FTC Act), which are used to prohibit unfair or deceptive trade practices involving the collection, use, processing, and disclosure of PII.
- Some of the laws that apply to specific sectors are:
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), which applies to financial institutions
- Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), which applies to health care and health plan information.
- Laws that apply to types of activities affecting individual privacy are the following:
- Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), applies to telemarketing activities
- Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM), applies to commercial emails
- Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), which applies to the online collection of information from children under 13
- Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which applies to consumer credit and other information; and
- Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), which regulate electronic communications and unauthorized computer use
Each of those regulates the way PII data can be collected used (PII == Personally Identifiable Information) or distributed. As far as I can tell Blizzard Entertainment would be in Jeopardy of at least some if not all of the above federal regulations and policy violations of those various federal regulatory agencies unless the opt out provides CYA for them which it might or might not. The legality aside though. This company appears to be resurrecting something that was killed off for very good reason (it was about to become DIRECTLY harmful to the customers). Resurrecting it in any form is a bad idea.
You agree to disclose at least your name and email to Blizzard, and their “partners” when you subscribe. If you don’t agree, you can’t subscribe. I’m not aware of any MVD that has been successfully stopped from selling drivers contact information, since, at least in my state, you agree to “share” that information at the discrection of MVD in order to get a license.
P.S. I really wish we did have the enforcement that the EU currently has, but unfortunately, we don’t, yet.
And a game company shouldn’t willingly spread that information for no real gain.
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It’s a dumb idea.
I was on twitter a few years ago and backed up some guy on his stats. He was correct and didn’t agree with his political stance but hey, the guy was correct. I was threatened with getting fired from my job and doxxed etc. All that because I said some random guy was right on what he said after people said he was wrong.
My last name isn’t common so yeah.
Well, there is real gain to be had. If nothing else by targeted ads. That is one reason I run adBlockers, AdGuard Home, and use a VPN when I’m on the road. I almost never see an Ad of any kind. Except for occasionally when I watch regular TV or pass a billboard on the highway 
P.S. I saw a friends system with a browser up and a news channel, I didn’t even recognize the page because of all of the ads 
P.S.S. AdGuard is currenly blocking about 40% of all DNS queires, all of them to data collection, tracking, and ad sites.
What forum has been utilizing first and last name?
Blizzard can do that without publicly releasing your information. That’s the point.
I run ublock origin and tampermonkey, so I also don’t see ads much.
Well, from what I’m reading they aren’t publicly releasing your information, just to partners. With the possilble limited excpetion if you don’t disable Real ID (and I agree it should be disabled by default, opt in not opt out).