On other GDPR news: ICANN has now made an exception to european TLDs (not .com, .net, etc.) so that they don't have to provide the WHOIS information at all, so there is no need to even "protect" it.

Source?

Yeah source please. Because europeans can buy domains from South America too

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I cannot find ICANN's source, but my registrar (Basque Country) sent us this message:
https://domeinuak.eus/en/new/...
I will try to find ICANN's message, though

I found this on ICANN's site
https://icann.org/news/...
I just over-read it, and I understood that people with legitimate reasons, could still request the data, although this does not agree with my registrar's wording, so I will investigate further and keep you updated 😉

Article from yesterday:
https://icann.org/news/...
tl;dr;
ICANN went to a german court, and ICANN won. It seems that whois info will still be requested, but that ICANN will only give it in case of a "legitimate" reason like criminal activity, copyright infrigement, etc, which (for what the article says) is also what the GDPR requires.
Disclaimer: I am not used to reading legal documents, so I may have missed something important

@aritzh
Yep, and that is for ALL domains and not just europeans :)