It would be an interesting case, but not worth the legal fees!
It would be a pretty fast case let’s be real.
“Hi I rent this account and I got identified”
“So it’s not your character?”
“Not legally but I named it after myself”
Like… what?
It would be more along the lines of:
“I created this character, and this character has data attached to it that can be used to identify me in the real world. Therefore, this character should be protected by the same rules that protect data like my name, address, political beliefs etc.”
You would never own your character, but it would place legal limits on what Blizzard and other companies can do with it.
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It’s like renting a car cause you don’t want people to know when you’re driving but someone sees you.
You can’t sue the rental company for that
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So what I’m getting is if a person, that has personal data attached to character A, for whatever reason, let’s say it’s the Character Ion plays, which is fairly well known, and they’re playing on character B, you see no issue that they can be identified as the same person who plays character A?
Then there’s guild leaders, streamers, recruitment officers, many many more things that can be used to identify people in real life from a SINGULAR character they’re playing. I don’t believe all that information should be attached to ALL the characters they’re playing. But maybe that’s just me.
That’s a good analogy.
But there are some things that you still couldn’t do with the information, like the rental company couldn’t give gps recordings of your location to other people without telling you that’s what they were going to do.
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It’s attatched to the account that is owned by blizzard. If you don’t want your data out there the best thing you can do is uninstall bnet, get off every social platform and live in the woods.
Or use a second account not linked to the same bnet and you won’t share achievements. People use the same account cause they want all of their goodies and benefits yet gets mad when people see they have the same goodies and benefits?
Well blizz is pretty forthcoming that they will share some data with other developers (an option you can even turn off )
I can’t help but disagree with you, but I see that you’re not going to change your mind on that topic and I am aware that some people don’t care about their privacy while others do, so I see why it’s a non issue for you and an issue for others.
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It depends. In this case its more like the rental company also published: “the anonymous person who rented this car on Wednesday 06:00-14:30 also rented this other car on Saturday 17:00-22:00”
Which then is a more critical thing
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Actually no cause blizz isn’t linking your toons, it’s checkpvp and rio/wowprog so it’s more like someone posting on Facebook “I also saw him 3 days ago in an orange car”
That’s probably something you could easily take down as well, though.
Also Blizzard provides enough information via API to compile this data. The rental company in your fictional case would therefore provide an API with number plate, rental time and customer id.
The example doesn’t really work in general with the rental company. The point here is that Blizzard provides API data that can be used to backtrack my behaviour. Look at my raider io & warcraftlogs of the last season and all the runs I did. You can perfectly figure out my working hours, how often I go away over the weekend etc etc.
This can be considered critical and it could expose people to additional dangers. If someone here knew who you were IRL, they could use this data to figure out your patterns to know when you are most likely not home and go rob you or something.
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Another site thats quite obnoxious is:
Check-pvp
Pvp players use it all the time, tracks all alts and any kind of pvp activaty, whith ofc armory links.
Nearly all those sites rely on you registering to remove yourself.
I looked myself up on the PvP Check one and it can only find one of my multitude of alts, however I am registered on Wowprogress and Raider IO and I don’t hide my alts but I have the option to if I wanted to.
Sure but your neighbor Fred could also rob you at any time you’re not home cause he can just look through your window.
People worry to damn much these days
Most of the comments in this thread are from you, maybe you’re showing too much concern for how other people wish to handle their privacy? Idk just my two pennies
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A GM just helped me diactivating the Parental Controls so I can turn off this privacy thing.
I have no idea what these community sites and accessing features are 
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Community sites are where you’ve given sites permission to link up to your bnet. For example my raider io is linked to my bnet and pulls up all my alts from it, I have a similar link with the xu fu pet battle site because it imports all my pets and when I look up battle strategies it knows what I have and what breeds etc.
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And it’s also about how you are afraid someone can find blizzards toons on blizzards account 
Alright if you’re not happy with the post, stop replying, no need to stick around.
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