I'm very glad the author is talking about his concern in a calm and reasoned manner, and focuses on his specific issue with reasonable clarity, rather than bein

I'm very glad the author is talking about his concern in a calm and reasoned manner, and focuses on his specific issue with reasonable clarity, rather than being sensationalist and conflating several issues together. The specifics of the case aside, it is sort of troubling that a private company can make a decision on how to enforce a law entirely unrelated to its operations. I would have no problem with Blizzard being compelled to release private information (given due process of law). I would have no problem with them being bound not to release the information, by a privacy policy or something. The fact that they can elect to comply or not, based on their own whims, is somewhat troubling. At the least, I would like them to have a explicit and specific policy of when they will comply. Fortunately, this is a rather strange edge case based on jurisdictions, and it's unlikely to come up in the future as awareness about this case makes people use proxies (or stop playing). But the principle should still be resolved.