Report: Blizzard Blizzcon APP is spyware(video)

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That’s one way to sell tickets I guess…

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This. This is freaking spooky and not okay. What the hell is the justification for this?

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Apparently the justification is, “they’ve been doing it all this time guys, this isn’t the first Blizzcon they’ve gathered and sold your info!”

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This means I can’t go even if I was willing to let them spy on me. I have a cell but it’s not a smartphone.

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I don’t feel bad for people that have to install spyware on their phones in order to go. If you fangirl hard enough to support Blizzard with the quality development they have been putting out then you deserve everything that comes along with it.

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Blizzard is double dipping, selling tickets for $229 and then turning around and selling your data to advertisers. Last time I went to Blizzcon I wasn’t required to have a monitoring device. This is absurd.

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Corporations going to grab whatever data they can to profit at your expense. Most of the suckers, er, I mean valued customers don’t know or don’t care.

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they can make money selling your information.

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Blizzard does not own AXS
Blizzard does not get the information.
You only need to app for 5 minutes to get the badge… download it, log in, show QR code, delete it.

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It’s a little more than just selling your information. You give them permission to not only take control of your device, but to monitor your movements, AND watch/listen to you (in order to advertise to you they claim) and access your pics and videos. Better hide your nudes.

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That is the most asinine defense of Blizzard’s decisions I’ve ever seen.

YoU oNlY nEeD tO iNsTaLl iT fOr 5 MiNuTeS!

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Blizz does make mistakes, but they have not been selling our phone data or personal information. Nor have they given it out. Blizz has had my number for more years than I can say and I have never gotten a call that was not the standard robo call spam. Not even a single text.

If they gave that info out or sold it, you would have reason to sue them and could win.

This is also true. It is not Blizzard’s app. It is the ticket seller’s app that Blizz requires in order to get your badge.

It is really good that people are paying attention to what data apps access and questioning it. People wonder why I have almost no apps on my phone at all and never do purchases or anything sensitive with it.

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But, but I don’t have a phone. Does that mean they won’t let me attend.

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What a scummy company blizz is lmao

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Yet here we are supporting them.

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“Whoops, looks like you all do this year. Must be time for more Diablo Immortal information, 'cause now we know you guys have phones.”

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You can’t attend if you don’t have a phone with the app in question.

“no paper tickets or confirmation emails will be accepted. The app displays a QR code (one code for all of your tickets), which changes at regular intervals to help guard against dupes and fraud.”

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lol, if people were sensible no one would attend and that would fix the issue

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Guess it’s a guarantee that the attendees will have phones this year eh?

Side note - So tired of these content ‘creators’ who just read inflammatory nonsense someone else wrote. He’s not as bad as Yong but srsly… omg the sky is falling an app had permissions that could easily be made to seem scummy :roll_eyes:

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Sure.

Do MVPs have their entire account titled? I thought you just had one character with green text.

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