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Safe Geo-location Defaults


From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 09:59:15 -0400 (EDT)

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.




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