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You're probably thinking about https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/10/lawsuit-how-a-quiet-kansas-home-wound-up-with-600-million-ip-addres
by EE84M3i 6y ago
You're probably thinking about 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://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/1... which is about the maxmind geoip database using a specific coordinate for when they don't know anything more accurate than "United States"
- chipsa 6y agoThis is why you need both a location and a certainty when giving back geotagged info, and when you get it, you don't display a point, you display an appropriately sized circle. So you get something that actually resolves to "US", you draw a circle centered on the US, covering most of the US, instead of a point marker in the middle of the US.