Apparently companies have no privacy protection in the EU. I guess maybe the USA is the only place where companies have more rights than people instead of fewer rights than actual human beings. ;)
You pointed out the problem with the whois blocking. Those are corporate contacts meant for public dissemination. There is no privacy protection for such information under the USA or EU. What is being said is that corporate contacts in the whois database deserve protection but similar information collected by RIPE is somehow not worthy of protection. This is what happens when you get involved in trying to use the regulatory laws to deceive people. Companies are made up of actual human beings so I don't see a distinction. Companies (unlike regulatory agencies) create jobs. Thank You