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		sbov on April 17, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, accord... I didn't mind my info being in whois records. Until websites started hosting that info. And Google started crawling those websites. There's a big difference between your wife's ex guessing your domain and running whois on it to find her home address, vs just being able to Google her name to find it.

noja on April 17, 2018 [–]

Isn't every single one of those websites violating that TOS of the registry, that the data may be queried, but not stored?

(queue the "there's no difference" brigade - yes there is)

sbov on April 17, 2018 | [–]

I'm guessing they didn't actually store it, because it got cleaned up shortly after I deregistered the domain.

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