On 2. the consequences can be real, as in the article linked below where people keep accusing a couple of stealing their phones. I believe in that case their h

On 2. the consequences can be real, as in the article linked below where people keep accusing a couple of stealing their phones. I believe in that case their house was located at the centroid of a zipcode and whatever tool was used to map it simply put a pin at the centroid. This suggests that just lowering accuracy is not sufficient to protect innocent parties if that lowered accuracy isn't reflected in the visualization, and an approach like highlighting a region is probably a better way to go than giving a precise but inaccurate location. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/01/26/people-keep-going-to-this-home-looking-for-their-lost-phones-and-nobody-knows-why/?utm_term=.162417992b98 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/01/26...