Challenge to Blue on RealID

#0 - July 8, 2010, 7:26 p.m.
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Here's the problem you are creating for me specifically, and for many others more generally:

Search my full name on Google -- I am the first 3 names that appear and am listed as 8 of the 10 names listed on the very first page alone. With only that information from Google, you can find where I work and what I do immediately. Then do a full name search with my work affiliation and you have some 66,500 Google pages that are me (I just checked).

I don't need that potential harassment. And neither do others who are even easier or more challenging to find. Full name disclosure in this specific environment is rife for all kinds of harassment.

I may on occasion get an unsolicited, unwanted call or contact from someone outside my normal profession and business relations because of the information already on me on the Internet, which I have no control over, but none of those people are prone to harass like that which exists from these forums and this game.

In its current, proposed form the RealID forum announcement really needs to be revisited.
#1 - July 8, 2010, 7:29 p.m.
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Please use the main thread to consolidate feedback and discussions on this topic : http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.html?topicId=25712374700&sid=1