Back in 2002, a company called MaxMind had an idea: Gather up as many unique computer or smartphone IP addresses as they can, match them to a map, and sell that data to advertisers. The problem, as ...

“The acreage is quiet and remote: a farm, a pasture, an old orchard, two barns, and a two-storey house,” investigative reporter Kashmir Hill describes. “It’s the kind of place you move to if you want ...

A Kansas family whose remote farm was visited "countless times" by police trying to find missing people, hackers, identity fraudsters and stolen cars because of a glitch is suing the digital mapping ...

WICHITA, Kan. (CN) — An Internet protocol company turned a Kansas family’s idyllic farm life into a “digital hell,” assigning 600 million IP addresses to their property, sending police there at all ...

A couple in the US has been described as living in a ‘digital hell’ and now plans to sue an IP location company over an error that has led to 600m addresses being ...

In May 2011, James and Theresa Arnold moved into a century-old home in rural Kansas with their two sons. They rented the home because it was near their son’s school and Theresa’s mother’s nursing home ...