Treasure Map: Rare Coin Dealer Sues Google over Directions to Home
14th February 2010
Privacy is getting to be a rare commodity these days. That is what precious coin dealer Jon Harris of Jupiter, Florida has discovered. The angry dealer in rare and precious coins is suing Google for invasion of privacy in telling the whole world where he lives. Which might not be such a terrible thing, except for Harris’s reasonable assumption that as a coin dealer, thieves might be very interested in where he lives and what he keeps there.
We have the technology.
February 15th, 2010 at 12:08
I knew a parrot dealer out in California who kept her breeding operation completely hidden. People will come with guns are take parrots by force in order to resell them elsewhere. The dealer said they had no choice but hide because otherwise it was too dangerous to raise parrots.
If parrots are such targets then imagine rare coins. Publishing peoples home addresses for any reason is an invasion of privacy but to go a step further and indicate your business is just amking a slew of targets available for robbers.
Google is probably doing this to everyone.