It’s publicly released, especially if Real ID is on by default and there’s also no way to actually stop anything from being released - in this case your Battle Tag.
I think you’d have a hard time categorizing a Battle Tag as PII by itself. But if someone thinks it is they complain and see if they get any bites. I don’t really have a horse in this race as I always expect the worst and then I’m occasionally pleasantly suprised.
The gain may be real but the legal consequences (depending upon jurisdiction) can get you anything from fined, to shuttered, to jail sentences. So the risks (by design) outweigh the rewards. Doing this and exposing PII even if opted in would and will get Blizzard sued if harm or damage comes of it. While there may not be one single federal law yet on this subject Blizzard Entertainment could be found guilty of multiple violations of various state laws on making public restricted information and while I believe Blizzard Entertainment is a big boy and can fend for itself and does not need my protection or advice I still would be exceedingly upset at them if they released MY information. As I am one of the people whose profession is covered under 18 USC Section 119 if MY PII data was released through this they would be punishable under federal law for that breach which includes both civil penalty fines and a jail sentence for the person responsible.
At the end of the day if it is not good for the community then the policy needs to be deep sixed.
I’m not a lawyer, internet or otherwise, so I’ll leave that to them. If I start to see successful legal actions then I’ll be a beliver. Right now it just does not seem to be happening, and there are much worse offenders out there like Google and Facebook.
As a software engineer/data scientist I am aware of the GDPR and how it impacts my work. The law, I’ll leave that to the Judges and Lawyers to figure out.
Not a lawyer either. But like you I work in an industry as a particular type of analyst that falls under 18 USC Section 119 and I know that me releasing someone else’s data could ultimately earn me federal jail time. (those training courses get drilled into you and if you are a software engineer/data scientist I know you know exactly what I am referring to). Thus if I have to be careful with the PII I come into contact with and must observe the laws, then it must also be true that every other company that I do business with must be able to make that same true statement. Otherwise I might be on the hook for doing business with a company that would publicly release restricted information. If I have to obey the law then everyone has to obey the law.
Stop already. Election isn’t decided. When it is that’s when things can get weird.
Til then, let’s just get along. This racism thing is tiresome.
It doesn’t say when this takes affect. Does anyone know?
I’m not the one spreading false news about the vice president elect.
Since it is part of the new Terms of Service for the use of Battle.net and you had to agree to that when you restarted battle.net then I would say it is in effect NOW.
I expressed the same opinion, but regarding Raider IO and was S-S-S-Shot Down.
I haven’t restarted Bnet yet, does that mean I’m immune?
Is it disabled by default?
Well I guess we’ll see if anything comes of it. Personally I don’t believe much will, except hopefully they’ll make the RealID an opt-in rather than an opt-out or better yet scrap Real ID again.
As for the other types of information, if that becomes forbidden (and I’d be for that) it will impact a lot of companies, even government agencies, not just Blizzard.
No, right now it seems to be enabled by default. At least I had to disable it myself.
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You know… I was heavily against this the first time… I railed really hard against it.
Now, bring it on. I have a very unique name. Very, very few of us around. I still say, bring it on.
No. It just means you haven’t restarted battle.net yet. The Terms of Service have an effective date on them so that should you somehow not restart battle.net for some length of time and you then restart and accept it is retroactive to that effective date.
I just checked mine, was easier than I thought it’d be. It’s disabled so I didn’t have to do anything.
Ty.
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Same here.
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I’m trying to log into my bnet account, not bnet and it’s making me accept the new tos. Uh-oh… 
They’re saying (somewhat obscurely) that it’s POSSIBLY depending on the settings you have enabled, that you may inadvertently post something under your Real ID, instead of your character name.
The following sentence states if a user happens to do something like this, they can contact Blizzard, and they will attempt to replace the Real ID, but that there is no guarantee that Blizzard will be able to undo the user’s error.
(Essentially, a “once it’s on the internet, there’s no taking it back” kind of thing)