Real ID may cost me my job

Real ID may cost me my job. I am an employee of the state of Texas. As such, anyone can simply google my name and find out my salary, what govt job I hold, WHERE I WORK, the address, etc... Do you realize what kind of risk this presents for me in terms of the real ID system?

NO big deal Right, who is gonna bother? WRONG. Its already happening. I happen to have a very unique name. There is no other person in the world with my name. Every reference to me online is directly related to me and in the top 5 is a link to my govt work information that lists my job title, employer, salary, place where I work, and the address.

Persons for whatever reason have already used this to harass me. Apparently enough friends of friends of friends of friends have used the in Game Real ID system to look me up and harass me. I have received 37 calls related to world of warcraft at my place of work in the past week. In the prior two years, I have received ONE phone call.

This has caused such a disruption that I am facing termination. I have 1 week to make the calls stop. After that time, I will be placed on administrative leave until my sick leave and vacation balances are expended, at which point I will be terminated.

Real ID is far to dangerous and damaging. Blizzard you must remove this feature.

GREAT JOB BLIZZARD!

Wait, seriously? Who cares enough about what pressing WoW issue to call you at work?

You would be surprised. just because YOU would not does not mean OTHERS wont.

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Wait, seriously? Who cares enough about what pressing WoW issue to call you at work?

You have apparently never heard of 4chan.

They do it because it's what they do.

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Real ID may cost me my job. I am an employee of the state of Texas. As such, anyone can simply google my name and find out my salary, what govt job I hold, WHERE I WORK, the address, etc... Do you realize what kind of risk this presents for me in terms of the real ID system?

NO big deal Right, who is gonna bother? WRONG. Its already happening. I happen to have a very unique name. There is no other person in the world with my name. Every reference to me online is directly related to me and in the top 5 is a link to my govt work information that lists my job title, employer, salary, place where I work, and the address.

Persons for whatever reason have already used this to harass me. Apparently enough friends of friends of friends of friends have used the in Game Real ID system to look me up and harass me. I have received 37 calls related to world of warcraft at my place of work in the past week. In the prior two years, I have received ONE phone call.

This has caused such a disruption that I am facing termination. I have 1 week to make the calls stop. After that time, I will be placed on administrative leave until my sick leave and vacation balances are expended, at which point I will be terminated.

Real ID is far to dangerous and damaging. Blizzard you must remove this feature.

GREAT JOB BLIZZARD!

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You would be surprised. just because YOU would not does not mean OTHERS wont.

Foul!

Logic is not allowed.

Which is why I'm curious. I mean, WoW barely comes up as a conversation topic among my friends who also play. So I can't fathom this, unless they're just trying to be pricks, and it wouldn't take very many people to make 37 calls a day.

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You have apparently never heard of 4chan.

They do it because it's what they do.

Then it'd be a whole lot more than 37 a day.

Its friends of friends of frineds using real id friends lists to harass me. I happen to be in one of hte most succcesful guilds in the US. We have thousands of Trolls that constantly harass us. There are web pages dedicated to griefing us with spam, Real ID has just taken it to a new level. I suspect I am dealing with this because my name is so unigue it litterally takes 5 seconds to google my name and find my employeer information thanks to the Texas Public Information act.

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Its friends of friends of frineds using real id friends lists to harass me. I happen to be in one of hte most succcesful guilds in the US. We have thousands of Trolls that constantly harass us. There are web pages dedicated to griefing us with spam, Real ID has just taken it to a new level. I suspect I am dealing with this because my name is so unigue it litterally takes 5 seconds to google my name and find my employeer information thanks to the Texas Public Information act.

ill give you 2/10


some people are biting

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Its friends of friends of frineds using real id friends lists to harass me. I happen to be in one of hte most succcesful guilds in the US. We have thousands of Trolls that constantly harass us. There are web pages dedicated to griefing us with spam, Real ID has just taken it to a new level. I suspect I am dealing with this because my name is so unigue it litterally takes 5 seconds to google my name and find my employeer information thanks to the Texas Public Information act.

Well, you can activate parental controls on your account and disable Real ID from working. Seems like it might be a good solution here.

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Its friends of friends of frineds using real id friends lists to harass me. I happen to be in one of hte most succcesful guilds in the US. We have thousands of Trolls that constantly harass us. There are web pages dedicated to griefing us with spam, Real ID has just taken it to a new level. I suspect I am dealing with this because my name is so unigue it litterally takes 5 seconds to google my name and find my employeer information thanks to the Texas Public Information act.

so... why did you use it? and why didnt you quit playing?

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Its friends of friends of frineds using real id friends lists to harass me. I happen to be in one of hte most succcesful guilds in the US. We have thousands of Trolls that constantly harass us. There are web pages dedicated to griefing us with spam, Real ID has just taken it to a new level. I suspect I am dealing with this because my name is so unigue it litterally takes 5 seconds to google my name and find my employeer information thanks to the Texas Public Information act.

The thousands of trolls part is doing you in buddy, best change it quick.

After being called into our human resources office today, I enabled parental controls, removed all friends from real id. People need to understand just how dangerous and misguided real id is. It will be and ALREADY IS being used for nefarious purposes. My first call in the morning is going to be to blizzard to find out what other steps I should take.

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After being called into our human resources office today, I enabled parental controls, removed all friends from real id. People need to understand just how dangerous and misguided real id is. It will be and ALREADY IS being used for nefarious purposes. My first call in the morning is going to be to blizzard to find out what other steps I should take.

your undertroll is showing

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After being called into our human resources office today, I enabled parental controls, removed all friends from real id. People need to understand just how dangerous and misguided real id is. It will be and ALREADY IS being used for nefarious purposes. My first call in the morning is going to be to blizzard to find out what other steps I should take.

I hope you get it stopped ans sorted out. If you lose your job over Real ID then I would talk to an attorney to see if Activision is liable.

The John Smiths of the world have something to rejoice about, anonymity for those with boring parents and boring surname!

I heard that the Mayor of the city I live in has their real name given to thousands of people and they aren't griefed endlessly...

Perhaps you should create a list of all those phone numbers and give them to the police to create a restraining order for 5000 people.

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I hope you get it stopped ans sorted out. If you lose your job over Real ID then I would talk to an attorney to see if Activision is liable.

Please don't bring up potential litigation. It was deamed a "Threat" earlier and got my last thread which was more hotly worded, deleted.

You may be a troll but even if no one should ever go that far.

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Please don't bring up potential litigation. It was deamed a "Threat" earlier and got my last thread which was more hotly worded, deleted.

Sorry man, just trying to help you out.

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