Most info in the combat log has to be distributed to all players, otherwise their client can’t display what’s happening.
So exactly what type of info would you like to leave out? Or do you mean hide the combat log from addons, but let the client read all of it?
No worries. We care about personal data.
This can obviously a fair discussion.
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I generally find it difficult to believe a community cares about personal data if it aggressively tries to exclude things from being your personal data.
You can look up all my characters log. You still have no idea who i am.
The definition about personal data is in the OP’s (your) starting post
Good luck identifying who i am.
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I could share you my IP address and you’d be no materially closer than before. Unless you can plug it into a system where it’s directly associated with me. To which I find character names aren’t substantially different, since they’re by design unique, and intrinsically tied to a user.
Of course, the risks change, but that doesn’t materially affect whether it’s personal or not.
Still, now we’re back to arguing till the cows come home when it doesn’t materially address the proposed changes.
As someone who has actively been involved with implementing GDPR on multiple government services, your take is completely unhinged from reality.
It breaks down immediately in your analysis, because:
Personal data are any information which are related to an identified or identifiable natural person.
Your character is not a natural person. It’s a fictional person and there is no way to convert this fictional person from its name and realm to your address or name or place of work or SSN or any other personally identifiable information.
Other than through Blizzard themselves, and you have to outright ask them, and they’ll most definitely say no, and you can ask them to remove this data by deleting your acocunt under GDPR.
It’s amazing to me how OP can write such a long and detailed and well formatted post that’s probably taken an hour to make, only to fall to “What is personal information?”
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The combat log is not personal data. You were/are objectively wrong about that.
The reason you don’t want to argue about it is that your own ego is preventing you from admitting that you’re wrong, and that same ego also happens to be the reason you don’t want others to see your in-game performance.
This entire post reeks of your fear of getting your feelings hurt. The “privacy” discussion is a thin veil and always has been in posts of this kind.
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https://www.google.com/search?q=why+is+ip+address+personal+data
Obviously you can say we should remove ip address from personal data too, but i have a static IP at home so yes, it is quite easy to find my household with my IP.
My warcraftlogs says something about someone in Europe. Or actually, someone playing on servers in Europe.
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And this is where you are flawed.
Combat logs show data about a online avatar of yourself.
Which CANNOT be tracked to your phisical person/body unless someone hacks blizzard servers.
Which in itself is ilegal.
So I see no issue here.
TLDR : Combat logs show Uda. But im not Uda. Im someone else… 
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And can be deleted through a GDPR request.
OP has no case what-so-ever.
EDIT: Also, in an environment where Admiral, who I asked about this as a government employee in the very early days of GDPR, are spreading consent forms that are in total violation of the law all over the internet, why are we even discussing Blizzard? Clearly, if the government isn’t capable of going after Admiral, then we’ve got no chance.
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Blizzard has a feature to prevent your data from going to external developers. In your Account settings, under Privacy & Communication, is the following:
Game Data And Profile Privacy
Share Game Data
Allow Battle.net to share game data with external developers to enable game related services such as leaderboards, statistic trackers, and more.
Battle.net allows external developers to build applications and experiences for our players using game data including gameplay details and your BattleTag. Disabling this setting will prevent these services from working. This setting does not allow the sharing of your name, email address, physical address, telephone number, or other similar information without your specific consent.
Disabling this feature may take up to 30 days to process.
When untick the box this message pops up:
Opting out of sharing game data will de-link your account with community sites you may have connected to. You will be unable to continue accessing features those community experiences may provide.
UNTICK on this page, Tabibrave, and your problem is solved…
To be clear, I think both are personal data. Y’all are doing things like saying “I’m not <character name>”, which is true insofar as not literally being your ingame character…
…but they’re not anyone else, either. They’re your representative, not anyone else’s.
Mistjo-ArgentDawn is a fictional character, but they’re representing a very real person. Unless you’re secretly a robot, I guess, I suppose we can’t fully disqualify that possibility. /s
‘Representing’ a real person, does not mean you can link that real person to that fictional character. With my IP address you do.
So far this Mistjo character in the game is played by a human being, probably living in Europe. That’s all you get.
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As someone who professionally has to work with GDPR related provisions at the highest confidentiality level, I can tell you that WoW combat logging and sharing this data with logs or RIO or whatever is absolutely ok and in line with GDPR provisions.
No matter how much you trust in Blizz’s capabilities, their legal and executive department is always doing top game and ensuring nobody can go at them legally or business-wise speaking.
But the cold reality of it is that what you specifically consider to be personal data is irrelevant. What matters is the understood and agreed interpretation in the drafting of the regulations, the ratification in national fora, and the interpretation of the courts (arguably less relevant given that societal view has not shifted considerably since the regulations were drafted).
If you genuinely believe what you are saying, I suggest you register your concerns with Blizzard’s legal team, or with your country’s equivalent of the Information Commissioner’s Office. I suspect you will be disappointed.
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Yeah, and I would like to add that since you agreed to the terms and conditions in order to be able to play the game, you voluntarily and lawfully agreed to the fact that all ingame data belong to Blizzard and also that they act as Data Controller under GDPR provisions.
It hypothetically means that the only thing to raise as a complaint on data manipulation with your ingame character, any logs, RIO, gear, mounts etc. in accordance to the GDPR would be Blizz having problem with you sharing and handling THEIR data against their agreed terms (of course not happening but the legal logic is this).
Of course your data like email address or location from where you make purchases etc is different story.
You are Mistjo. You currently reside in tbe Valley of the Four Winds, having recently relocated from Townlong Steppes. You are a pandaren, therefore by association you have a serious alcohol problem 
just kidding
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NO, they are not.
Personal Data is data that pertains to YOU, as an individual person.
Personal Data does not include a make believe character in a Fantasy Game.
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This would be a good post, if it had not been for the fact that combat logs does not fall under personal data, and is not subject to GDPR either.
The character does not even belong to you. It’s Blizzards.
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If the OP’s logic was applied on here, our post count would surely fall into their interpretation of personal information. Clearly nonsensical.
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