I would have responded to some of this sooner, but I have been busy with a defendants' summary judgment motion, in part against Moniker for providing privacy service to a spammer -- e360Insight. No LEGITIMATE business hides their identity. Domain privacy services do not only hide identity, but it can hide quantity and relationships. Ie. A spammer uses 100 domain names to spam with, how do you link them to the one spammer if they use a privacy service? Or, a blogger has the domain name WidgetXpert.com and has a blog that talks about widgets, but it turns out that that blogger is actually the president of one of the companies that makes widgets? A privacy service may offer privacy of the telephone number and street address (but leave the State, or equivalent, and Country in place). This prevents some of the abuse. There is also a service by the US Postal service (and probably similar elsewhere) called a P.O. Box. which offers this same type of privacy. I use my attorney's office as my address and telephone number for my domain names. There are options here. I am not law enforcement, I do share my research with the people in the FTC and the AG's office. As in regards to different privacy laws, I am not aware of any law that prevents one from voluntarily releasing information to the public.