KvK Address Shielding (Afschermen)
The Dutch process of shielding your visiting/home address in the KvK trade register, available to all sole proprietors.
Full definition
In the Netherlands, every business registers in the KvK (Kamer van Koophandel) Handelsregister, and for sole proprietorships (eenmanszaken) the visiting address is often the owner's home address, which became publicly searchable and resold. "Afschermen" (shielding) lets sole proprietors always hide that visiting address, provided they supply a separate public postal address instead; other entities can shield only on a proven threat, and officials' home addresses are protected by default. The key caveat: shielding at the KvK stops new disclosure but does not undo data already copied by online brokers, so it is paired with GDPR erasure requests. This is the Netherlands' single highest-intent privacy task.
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