On Wed, 13 Apr 2016, Nathan Anderson wrote:
What I do get upset hearing about, though, is law enforcement agencies using that kind of data in order to execute a warrant. There is nothing actionable there, and yet from the sounds of it, some LEAs are getting search warrants or conducting raids on houses where they believe they have a solid 1-to-1 mapping of IP address to physical address. Which is absolutely inexcusable.
Just watch any more or less recent CSI / crime TV show. They have "an IP", enter it into some gizmo, and it spits out the address, mostly shown on a nice sat image. That is so "normal" in TV that for Bully Policeman it just has to exist, and the reaction to a webform where you can enter an IP and get an address will just be "great, now I also have this" - no further thinking to be expected. And finding a Judge signing off nearly any warrant put in front of them is also not new. c'ya sven-haegar -- Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - Ben F.