[anti-abuse-wg] Analysis of the Legal Framework and Procedures Proposed by the Data Protection Task Force

 >After reading that page, I still cannot see a direct relevance to the 
NCC's services or procedures.

I believe DomainTools.com also downloads  the RIR's whois database and 
repackages and sells the data along with historical whois data from the 
domain registrars.   Isn't that related to the Data Protection Task 
Force legal framework?  The report says certain procedures and policies 
were put in place to prevent downloads because it supposedly violates 
some type of data protection laws.  Yet there is a company doing that 
and they don't seem to be concerned about the law and they seem to be 
freely selling the data.  Do these Data Protection laws actually apply 
to this situation or are these laws being broken and not enforced?  Or 
maybe some other explanation?  It is all unclear to me.