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A comment on EU data protection law may end up protecting scammers, experts warn.

Re:EU data protection law may end up protecting scammers, ex... by ysleepy on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:12PM (#16516775)
The WHOIS db is not protecting anyone from scammers. It is way to easy to provide fake data or use a TLD that does not care.

I like my privacy and WHOIS is bullshit.

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Re:EU data protection law may end up protecting scammers, ex... by tgragnato on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:35PM (#16516905)
I am wondering if this is simply a clash between authorities.

> David Redl (head of the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration): the US government expects this information to continue to be made easily available through the WHOIS service.

Who’s relying on WHOIS informations in order to catch scammers ?

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Re:EU data protection law may end up protecting scammers, ex... by elnygren on Sunday March 04, 2018 @04:28PM (#16516875)
And you can always buy privacy from quite many totally legit providers: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_privacy
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