See they’re sneaky. This year when they get booed again for mobile games they can smugly proclaim " What? We know you ALL have phones" right before they start laughing and twisting their mustaches.
Looks like short bows, garrote wire, rail guns, jars of acid, RPGs, sticks of dynamite and bags of broken glass are also not prohibited.
Some years ago, Blizzard toyed with the idea of making us login with our Email accounts, or something like that. One of the CMs, at that time and as a measure of ‘good faith’ or something like that, actually posted his REAL NAME on this forum, with a ‘see, nothing will go wrong’. type of attitude.
Remember what happened to him?
Within 24 hours he got CLOBBERED. His credit got ruined, andhole bunch of other stuff well.
TL:DR It can happen to you.
Never mind. But what do you mean by “Who says anything about Competing rivals?”
They wanted to display the REAL NAMES of everyone when they posted on the forums instead of Char names or Battletag nicknames. Taking a page out of Facebook I guess.
Horrible horrible idea that was thankfully shot down.
It states as above, our approval was given by accepting their terms, we quite literally leave it up to their discretion, including in the future, within defined means.
As they are now partnering with Netease to make mobile games our information is now tied up with a Chinese company, including (PII) because the game will require that.
I cant say I have faith in their discretion with my information any longer.
No one mentioned corporate rivals other than you. There is nothing stopping random people from purchasing data, afaik.
It states that it may share non-personal info and/or public information. So if the personal information is public then…?
Also, what about the merger with Activision that Sincubus mentioned? Activision has all our personal info now?
…AFTER a firestorm on the forums and that incident I referred to, in the rest of my post.
So anyone can by consumer information from companies who has them?
They made the decision to partner with the app that will be acquiring and selling off your private/public information but somehow blizzard are clean? Yeah I’m not buying it.
Kinda hurts. Morhiem left and activision posioned blizzard against us.
Unless there is a law I don’t know about, yes. There are a few companies that specialize in data collection.
Not sure how many competing solutions are out there. It’s not something I’ve done a lot of research into. However, it’s definitely something to discuss and give opinions on. Privacy is starting to matter again. However it does feel like tech just views us all as something to datamine and sell off.
If I had to take a guess, I say its Mobile advertisers trying to promote to you free to play browser games full of pay to win bullcrap.
No, it is not. You seem to be missing what I was talking about. There are categories of information that are used.
-Public info (stuff that is not used to identify or find you like your character name here that you choose to use)
-Personally Identifiable Information (all the stuff I listed)
-Non specific information (collections of data that does not link to personal or public info such as hardware specs of a player group, most commonly used ISPs, etc.)
Those categories are used for regulations and court cases. It is not arbitrary.
Blizzard can’t sell your phone number.
I don’t trust this third party ticket vendor app though because it is not done by Blizz. I also don’t have Uber or any other apps on my phone that could show location or financial info. Nor do I have any aspects of my home connected to the internet.
Possibly. I honestly don’t know about that one.
I don’t own a cellphone, I have a landline. Hang up on almost everyone who calls within the first two words out of their mouth. If I don’t know them immediate dial-tone, I value my privacy.
In terms of what? Buying the data? Sure, along with who knows who else. This blase attitude towards where personal data is going is rather troubling.
I’m not saying people should constantly be fearful of who or what has access to your information, but casually pushing it to the side by saying something like “oh, it’s just for ads” or whatever is pretty ignorant. People should always be cautious who they give their info to and stay mindful where that information could be going.
Well as I said, this is the price we pay that comes with the internet. And I don’t think its something we can easily alter in our favor.
Blizzcon must actually be a secret way to study nerd people, taking pictures of them with their phones and reading their contact lists (to find other nerd people.)
It is a huge conspiracy.
You push for legislation that better protects your personal info. That’s how the US works at least. People don’t want to do it, you vote them out.