Safe Geo-location Defaults

Thu Oct 21 14:16:38 UTC 2021

On Thu, 21 Oct 2021 at 15:59, Sean Donelan <sean at donelan.com> wrote:
>
> Has anyone published "safe" geo-location defaults? By safe I mean default
> lat/lon coordinates for a country, state/province, city, postal code which
> do not resolve near a residence.
>
> It seems like too many people use "Find My <device>" or other geo-location
> services, and then go to the exact location shown on the mapping service
> for the default lat/lon which is often a default location.  Knock on the
> person which happens to live near the default centroid, and acuse them of
> stealing their <device> because "Find My <device>" showed that location.

Yes... point your default coordinates to a safe location, please!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/10/lawsuit-how-a-quiet-kansas-home-wound-up-with-600-million-ip-addresses-and-a-world-of-trouble/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/08/kansas-couple-sues-ip-mapping-firm-for-turning-their-life-into-a-digital-hell/

Lukas