Blocking a user from VIEWING my profile

There's no option to block a specific user from viewing your profile. You can still hide your real-time listening information, though.
If you happen to be harassed by an user, feel free to report any unreasonable behaviour to a moderator.

But if real-time listening information is hidden, there would still be nothing to see.

I'd actually support the notion of there being a few modest additions to the privacy options as well.

Making the charts invisible for selected (or worse: NON-selected) people would be killing the best part of the site.
The idea is that one can learn new sounds and music by seeing and sharing the tastes of friends, neighbours and random strangers. Apart from a username, password and e-mailaddress (which is kept secret to begin with) nothing is asked, or set as a mandatory field when creating an account.

Very blunt: if you do not want to share that part of your taste, delete your profile and use the track-count in your media-player to see your charts... This is not Facebook, and the current question is asking to change the core-business of the site. I wouldn't call that 'lame'.
'Lame' would be that you are using the site to get your recommendations and charts and radio, and not wanting to share anything of your additions with others.

I guess non of you have had creepy stalkers. I don't mind random strangers looking at my profile. Music is meant to be shared. What I do mind is someone from my real life (who I have clearly told to leave me alone) using Lastfm as the only venue to track what I'm doing. They then start listening to bands I do, that they wouldn't otherwise have (for instance my cousin's band), keeping track of what concerts I'm attending (I stopped listing them, but I'm sure guesses could be made by my charts), and generally being creepy. So I guess you guys aren't thinking of the full scope of how there could be privacy issues.

Event privacy has been requested several times before, and sounds a good idea to me. Of all the stalkery things that could happen to a user, telling someone where you will be on what date is potentially scary. I've raised this issue with our team before, and I will continue to do so.

(You've optionally added your name, age and - presumably - city [by joining its group] to your profile - that information is surely easier to identify you with?)

I definitely agree with the 'event privacy' idea as well.

I would also support the notion of a 'block user' option in the privacy settings. I understand that for some, it's a slippery slope and there could be a call by certain users for an option to make their entire page private. I don't necessarily support that. I think that your page and most everything on it (aside from the things you can hide - shouts, etc.) should be public, but if there are users that you'd like to block from viewing your profile, the option would be there.

Depending on how the person is getting your account name (through friends, or did they just obtain it one time and it wouldn't happen again?) it might be sufficient to change your username.

I have no idea if this is possible currently, but I think it would be a far more reasonable feature request.

StudleyUK said:
Event privacy has been requested several times before, and sounds a good idea to me. Of all the stalkery things that could happen to a user, telling someone where you will be on what date is potentially scary. I've raised this issue with our team before, and I will continue to do so.

(You've optionally added your name, age and - presumably - city [by joining its group] to your profile - that information is surely easier to identify you with?)

That's the only thing that bothers me with privacy, the event data. All the rest really doesn't bother me at all. Shouldnt be to hard to make it private, afterall "recently listened" can be put on private too which imo is a less risk than knowing at what date a user is at a certain venue.

The joy of the events feature is keeping it as a to-do list or personal event reminder. I've been bookmarking events, but really - should one have to work around the system?

I definitely think there should be improved privacy for users on last.fm having been in a similar situation myself.

People should'nt have to miss out on a really incredible, one-of-a-kind website because they're made to feel uncomfortable - with good reason.

I can see how it does raise a lot of issues, though. Could there not be a way of taking the information from people's listening profiles, and using it to contribute to things like artist and song pages, reflecting how popular they are, while keeping them private while someone is viewing a particular profile? That way not as much of this social aspect of the website would be lost.

At the very least people should be able to use their events calender without being made to feel really uncomfortable.

I'd also really welcome being able to hide yourself from friends lists on here aswell, actually.

needs more people being careful about who knows their account.