Is an (inaccurate) national adress database a treat to privacy and sometimes personal security?

[Andrew Cormack]

Apparently some people considered the holes in Streetview Germany sufficiently interesting that they got "egged"...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11827862

Andrew


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> bounces at chiark.greenend.org.uk] On Behalf Of James Davis
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> Subject: Re: Is an (inaccurate) national adress database a treat to
> privacy and sometimes personal security?
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> On 12/12/10 17:46, Adrian Midgley wrote:
> > The same applies to Google Streetview.  THe holes are potentially
> > interesting.
> 
> There are a lot of inconsistently and incorrectly numbered and named
> streets out there. I'm confident that this would overwhelm any
> interesting omissions in the data.
> 
> James
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