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notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  They already digitized the books and put them online in searchable databases 30 years ago.
  Even with reverse number search (which my socially awkward self loved back then).
  So this argument doesn’t hold.

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  • notsosure@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It does over here and if you are older than 60.

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    • Multiplexer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I am living in Germany, which has one of the stronger privacy protection laws.

      But this was
      a) 20 years ago
      b) considered public data (distributed to every household in printed form any way), so the privacy laws of the time didn’t apply.

      The only legal disputes I remember were over questions of copyright for the entries in the phonebooks.

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