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Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid by taormina on Thursday September 22, 2016 @03:06PM (#12559326)
You have to remember that the ISP might have a physical location if this is a paying customer on a landline, but that's not usually the case. Reverse IP address location lookups are unreliable as worst and inaccurate at best. That house in Kansas that they mentioned? It's the default "middle of the US" location that is returned when they don't actually know where you are.
Re:A Digital Rumor Should Never Lead to a Police Raid by tedunangst on Thursday September 22, 2016 @04:09PM (#12559917)
Any ISP is going to have a more accurate idea of which customer has an IP than a generic geolocation service. An ISP in Ohio is not going to return a latitude and longitude that happens to be in Kansas.