Privacy issues with RIPE Database

> We are finding that other companies who are in competition with
> us, are using the RIPE database as a tool to extract a list
> of our customer base and hence canvass our customers with marketing
> information. I do not wish to make allegations or name the parties
> involved, but we have witnessed this three times in the last 6 months.

If you've got proof of this (or even reasonable suspicion) then inform the 
RIPE-NCC immediately. The information in the database is copyright and only to 
be used for operational  purposes. The RIPE-NCC will follow this up with the 
member concerned.

Nigel

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