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Treasure Map: Rare Coin Dealer Sues Google over Directions to Home
- spc476 17y agoI guess Google is a larger target than the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser ( http://www.co.palm-beach.fl.us/papa/index.htm http://www.co.palm-beach.fl.us/papa/index.htm ), or else he doesn't know it exists and gives way more information than Google does about his home.
- Groxx 17y agoHe's probably more interested in their yearly profit.
- eli 17y agoshrug Anyone can file a lawsuit.
- z8000 17y agoHow about this? Don't do business out of your house. Move the precious coins to a safe place instead. Rule 1 about being pissed off that someone told someone else something about you that you didn't want disclosed: do NOT make a big deal out of it. It just draws more unwanted attention.
- foulmouthboy 17y agoToo true, but... Rule #1 for wanting to profit off of something that's actually innocuous: Make a big deal about how the innocuous thing is actually dangerous to you and your family and then sue the richest person you can find.
- jackowayed 17y agoI'd guess this is what he's objecting to: http://maps.google.com/places/us/florida/stuart/sw-3rd-st/300/-jon-harris-rare-coins?hl=en http://maps.google.com/places/us/florida/stuart/sw-3rd-st/30... First of all, Google didn't create this information, they just scraped it. The first "More about this place" link has the same address. So if anything, he should be be suing that site. But really, it's his fault, because something publicly available suggested that his home address was the address for his rare coin shop. More importantly, there's a link at the top that says "Business owner?" that allows him to suspend or edit listing. He's not going to get very far in court. Luckily for him, it won't cost much because it said in the report linked to in the article said he's representing himself.