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The street address is officially registered, is attributed by the town and doesn’t belong to you. I don’t think you can find some more public than that. Compar
by makeitdouble 5y ago
The street address is officially registered, is attributed by the town and doesn’t belong to you. I don’t think you can find some more public than that.
Compare that to the name of your private router that happens to be broadcasted far outside your house for technical reasons.
- judge2020 5y agoI doubt you can claim "ownership" of text strings used for wifi and otherwise freely available. I suspect Google's lawyers would have stopped this feature from being implemented if there were even potential issues.
- makeitdouble 5y agoYou are right in that there isn't an ownership angle to this. The same way if you call your cat "Murphy", you wouldn't get a claim on the name, nor should forbid people from memorizing that you call your cat that name. To be honest I am not sure where I stand on the issue, but I sympathize on the uneasiness of a global corporation taking advantage of a situation in a way few people ever thought about. That's where I think the perception of the public/private status diverge for most people.