14. "RE: Help me with my research"
In response to message #13
>>There are people who have issues with this method. Generally because >>that geographic centre happens to land on their home. > >Yes, one occasionally sees horror stories in the news about hapless >randos who are constantly besieged by people who think they've stolen >their phones, or distributed porn of their kids, or otherwise done >some deeply egregious thing that some online detective has "traced" to >their house.
As I recall, the biggest one is that one of the more "untracable" addresses got assigned a random position... that happened to be a house. Last I knew there was a lawsuit trying to get that address assigned to somewhere else like the middle of a damned lake, with a side of "damages for emotional distress/economic damage" on top of it (I forget if it was the landowner or their tenant who filed it).
Jeffrey 'JFerio' Crouch 'It'll be all right... I think.' - Nene Romanova