Blizzard Suspends Professional Hearthstone Player for Hong Kong Comments

What’s hilarious is that deletion of account might require government issued photo ID.

The last step for me to stop doing business with a bad actor is by giving up my privacy.

I tried deleting my account just now and was prompted with a screen asking for it. "Might" might well be an understatement.

They even want an ID copy when revoking the right to process personal data (GDPR). Screw them. Lets upload pictures of Winnie-the-Pooh instead.

Devil's advocate here: They probably put this check in place due to the extremely high number of hacked Battle.net accounts.

I successfully deleted mine earlier today and did not have to present any sort of ID. "Might" stands.

Brilliant!

Don't even need to play Devil's Advocate here.

I guarantee 100% that this is the exact reason. If they're truly deleting ALL your data, could you imagine the customer service nightmare if someone's account got hacked and the attacker could issue a request to delete the entire account with no method for recovery?

What's the point? Anyone can buy fake id scans for $50 at most, $20 if you aren't getting ripped off.

Blizzard obviously doesn't authenticate these IDs as that isn't really possible.

The fact that you can do essentially anything to a Battle.net account with just an ID scan is a huge vulnerability.