Dont know if this is the right area but recently I’ve noticed that people now have the abiltiy to look up most if not all the characters on someones account?..is that right? Or just the ones logged in recently? i dont know how it works with the certain websites, but I’m here to say that it should not be allowed or even possible. And blizzard you should make it somehow so this can’t happen as it’s very intrusive and a breach of privacy for someone to just see you in game, look you up, and see all the other characters you play.
Pretty sure this isnt new nor a breach of privacy.
THat being said if u want a change u want to post here i know its bug reports but its also for website suggestions.
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Blizzard does not consider the names of their characters you have a license to use to be private information.
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has been this way for a long time, Blizzard have api’s that allow data to be retrieved such as all characters attached to an account
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It isn’t. Your actual name, and other personal identifying details are not revealed in any way.
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Yep, all character data is owned by Blizzard (not the player), and they chose to release this information.
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Eh… Just looking at your armory, Walez, is not a breach of privacy. In fact, none of your characters are part of the Online Private Policy.
How ever, if you think there should be improvements made to the armory, or privacy settings, then may I suggest somewhere more appropiate, such as General Discussion forums or In-Game Tool.
And just to add also, just so you’re aware, Blizzard is the ones who actually owns everything, including your characters.
Blizzard’s Ownership
With the sole exception of the Licensors’ Games, Blizzard is the owner or licensee of all right, title, and interest in and to the Platform, including the Games that are produced and developed by Blizzard (“Blizzard Games”), Custom Games derived from a Blizzard Game, Accounts, and all of the features and components thereof. The Platform may contain materials licensed by third-parties to Blizzard, and these third-parties may enforce their ownership rights against you in the event that you violate this Agreement. The following components of the Platform (which do not include content or components of the Licensors’ Games), are owned or licensed by Blizzard:
All virtual content appearing within the Platform, including the Blizzard Games, such as:
- Visual Components: Locations, artwork, structural or landscape designs, animations, and audio-visual effects;
- Narrations: Themes, concepts, stories, and storylines;
- Characters: The names, likenesses, inventories, and catch phrases of Game characters;
- Items: Virtual goods, such as digital cards, currency, potions, weapons, armor, wearable items, skins, sprays, pets, mounts, etc.;
Basically, when people are looking at your character, they are looking at Blizzard’s property, not your property. Blizzard does allow how ever have an option within your account settings to restrict sharing game data to third party websites.
But this option does not stop people from being able to look at your armory.
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Recently we also had a very big EU discussion about this by a rather, rabid person:
But ultimately, these things as mentioned in your opening post does not amount to a breach of privacy, nor intrusive even if you feel entitled to your privacy which differs from a right to privacy and/or contractual and lawful privacy. Many complicated layers and views.
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Yeah, plenty of sites offer something like this.
It’s not really a breach of anything as characters aren’t really hidden. There’s achievement points to compare, battle pet collections, mount collections, etc, etc.
If you want to obscure stuff you can disable data sharing so third party sites aren’t able to pull your info.
Then sites like checkpvp, seramate, etc, can’t yoink your stuff. Everybody can still find you in-game or on the armory, though. Keep in mind it interferes with logs/io and will often make people think you’re up to no good. 
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This is more about privacy as a person then the characters themselves. Some rather scummy people like to use that data for reasons that should be obvious.
They can get over it.
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I’m just saying it has considerable potential to affect ones ability to do certain things.
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And blizzard gives you more effective tools to handle that then just trying to hide from the person.
If you don’t want to use them, then they are welcome to continue to reach out.
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I do believe there is a way to have your account, and characters private.
Don’t quote me on that, but you can check out your account settings on battle.net …maybe there’s a way to keep that information quiet.
Hopefully that helps…if not, well…I did try. 
Wish you the best, good luck.
OP is probably referencing that French pvp site that will list all your alts. However there are some caveats. I think they need to be of a minimum level and possibly done some pvp matches as well? Not sure. Either way, it’s used quite often to ferret out people’s alts.
Much like with raiderio, the new armory addon and that site, you can hide your alts. But you need to setup accounts on each site, then associate your alts to your account and then there’s usually an option somewhere to hide them from searches. I did it for raiderio and the French site. I chose to go that route rather than disabling the API lookups on my account because I still needed wowhead to be able to access my account info.
I do wish we had the option to just allow specific websites access to our data as opposed to this all or nothing approach.
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If wanting to make this suggestion, then submit it via the In-Game Tool (Main Menu > Support > Submit Feedback) or via UI and Macro (Yes, anythbing related to Blizzard’s API can be suggested here.)
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Turn off share game data somewhere in your account settings. This won’t stop people from viewing your armory within the actual WoW armory page, but it will prevent 3rd party stalking via sources like check-pvp for competitive pvp players, because that shows every character and every alt if its been searched at least once. People use it to just check rated pvp stats to weed out liars & paid boosts, but it can be used for more malicious reasons.
And I’m sure all that can also be said for whatever other kind of sites they have out there for PvE to check m+ or raid parsing or whatever, not sure what the terminologies are for in pve, but you get it.
In game its how they assign the guid, it cant be changed with out giving each toon a new guid, the database to store this would be massive, addons like GRM are intrusive as they get the player guid and store alts or try to get previous guild members etc, it is a problem with privacy but you signed off on that in the EULA