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In sweden, those records are public and nothing you can do about as a swedish citizen. What goes in the rest of the EU I don't know.
What happens if you, say, suspect you may be stalked?
Get a gun, I guess. The swedes manufacturer more guns per capita than any country in the world.
Wow
It’s from a time where we didn’t have digital contact lists and no internet. So what if you want to call the bakery down the street? You look up a public record like YellowPages. And the same was true for people too. I know it’s hard to imagine now with plenty of Indian call centers social engineering grandma, but the only real “wow”here is why they didn’t change this yet.
Oh wait I thought the people's browser search history is public. My English is so great it's actually terrible.