Hello,
I’m just curious. Under the rights of GDPR do we have a right to have our characters removed from armory search? I’m thinking of the indirect identification section of the law which states:
“There are more factors to consider with indirect identification. Indirect identification means you cannot identify an individual through the information you are processing alone, but you may be able to by using other information you hold or information you can reasonably access from another source. A third party using your data and combining it with information they can reasonably access to identify an individual is another form of indirect identification.”
“Any information that can lead to either the direct or indirect identification of an individual will likely be considered personal data under the GDPR.”
Source: https: //gdpr(dot)eu/eu-gdpr-personal-data/
I’m thinking of the scenario of where my character names can be used to identity myself as a person in a reasonable (keyword) manner with help of other data sources, e.g. if my name and character appear somewhere online e.g. facebook, blizzard real id etc.
“Reasonably” is the fuzzy part. What is reasonable in the age of internet? Anyway, just curious.
Cheers,
Uhm…its an in-game avatar? How knowing that will help identify anyone? Otherwise, go ahead. My name is Lynlia and I am a rogue on silvermoon. This should be enough to track down where I live, work, bank account number and so on? 
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Its just the people who confuse Azeroth with Earth… bringing political stuff into the games lore and Protesting for Teldrassil like Vegans
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I’m not saying it applies for everyone, just in the cases your name and character have appeared somewhere online, anyway it may very well be beyond that is “reasonable” as stated in the law.
First of all GDPR strictly covers personal information only. There is no personal information whatsoever in the armory. Blizzard never shows any personal information publicly.
Second, Blizzard cant be held responsible if you personally chose to link your character/s to your personal self on any social platform, like FB, twitter or whatever.
TLDR: GDPR has no effect on in-game information, which your character is.
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I understand that if I myself post my character and name somewhere that that shouldn’t be considered since I publicly shared that information, but if someone who knows me does. Anyway e.g. probably whats beyond reasonable, just curious how far indirect identification through other sources stretches.
Then you “drive into a different ditch”. We legaly don’t own our characters. Blizz has full ownership of them. We just have a “licence” to use them. So if Blizz decided to make a movie and use our chars as inspiration for the roles or outright use them in 3d animations or something. Then they could easily do it.
Edit:hate typing on phone
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Are we discussing this for real or its a beyond tryhard troll post ?
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Its not about owning a character, the data model etc, the question is about personal data and whether the character name can be used to indirectly identify someone.
Simple answer…no.
Edit: unless you announce on fb or otherwise make it known to the world: that this character belongs to that John Doe who lives in that city in that country
GDPR does not apply to your in game avatar. Unless you have called it by your real name it does not give anything away of your REAL identity. The only ones that can link your character to you as a person are Blizzard and they are legally allowed to have that information.
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Nah I was just curious since my company had a security training where gdpr was a section (short), it was pretty fuzzy especially considering indirect data, and since I play WoW (classic) I was just curious about how far this goes. No ill intentions! Promise!
Please get some help, or take a break from game, look there is REAL world waiting for you.
Whelp this seems like a stupid question to have asked. 
GDPR only relates to personal information. The armoury does not have this information and is thus GDPR compliant. The only way people can associate your ingame character with you personally/IRL is if YOU disclose the relative information for them to piece it together.
Well i don’t know any method of this, maybe tracking by ip? character’s name > character’s account > your ip > track where you live? 
Is it weekend already?! Woohoo!
It’s not your data, it’s Blizz’s data.
Are you for real? Tinfoil hat time.