SE Please start caring about your players privacy.

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JP thread has people expressing their frustration and anger at SE's silence, so we're basically all in the same boat.

I really appreciate how much more solidarity they have with each other in their thread.

This depends on what I’m referring to specifically, the fact that data has been collected and continues to be collected. At some point, the damage becomes irreversible because the data is already out there, and there’s nothing that can be done to undo it.

Yeah, that can be fixed. Step 1 is to fix the blacklist so all this account information is properly protected. Step 2 SE just has to change the associated ID numbers on our characters/accounts so that the database is fully inaccurate. Step 3 is for anyone with concerns to do a name change (which is why I keep saying SE should provide one for each character for free after they've done as much damage control as they can), which effectively puts us back where we were before the stalkers started farming the data. Whatever's left are problems that already existed which could also be reasonably fixed if SE prioritized them.

Step 2 is the big question mark because that's the bulk of the workload. As long as those things happen in that order, this specific vector for harassment is completely eliminated. It can't undo any harassment stalkers have already inflicted in the last week, or for however long it takes before Step 2 is done, that's true. But the database itself would no longer be a threat. If SE fails to do Step 2, then we'll have lasting problems.