Quote Originally Posted by uvuvwevwevweonyetenyevweugwemu View Post
Basically this. No respected tools for whatever reasons is going to be "legal" if they don't show respect to the players involved. Doesn't matter if it's fflogs or twitch or whatever, remember that case where someone got flogged during their stream for "not conforming to damage standards" ? Hiding on request is at best has same respect of fixing your malware-infected laptop in a public wifi hotspot.
This is one of the dumbest false equivalencies I’ve ever seen on these forums. In no way is opting-out on fflogs the same as the situation you describe.

The creator of fflogs does indeed respect the community and has explained time and again why it’s opt-out and not opt-in. He’s even given two ways to opt-out so that players can decide if they’d rather create a fflogs account or not. Like my initial comment said, it’s literally as easy as adding a tag to your Lodestone profile. Takes less than 30 seconds.

Other comments have already explained situations that have “exposed” hidden data that was out of fflog’s control. The community itself is to blame for any negative use of the data. Which, by the way, you literally do not own. Because you don’t own the data, you don’t have any say in what’s done with it. Legally the only entity with any say is SE and we all already know they’re not going to go after fflogs anytime soon.

Finally, because you don’t own the data that constitutes and originates from you account, you have no expectation of privacy over said data.