The site seems to map purchases down to the individual address of the customer (you just have to zoom in a while to get there). As a potential zappos customer, I can't help but feel a little weirded out that my order information is so public. I can't really think of any real security violations (other then a really convoluted phishing app), but it'd be interesting to see if they can even legally report this data under their user agreement policy
It may not be the actual address - I noticed a shoe purchased a few hundred miles off the coast of Africa in an area without islands (I zoomed in to check!).
That's probably 0 degrees north, 0 degrees west, right on the Greenwich meridian and the equator, in the Gulf of Guinea. It's a spot that basically means "no data".
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The site seems to map purchases down to the individual address of the customer (you just have to zoom in a while to get there). As a potential zappos customer, I can't help but feel a little weirded out that my order information is so public. I can't really think of any real security violations (other then a really convoluted phishing app), but it'd be interesting to see if they can even legally report this data under their user agreement policy
It probably isn't the actual address. GMap just doesn't allow you to put fuzzy points in, I have had difficulty with that before.
So if you did try to trace down that person you would be knocking on a random door asking about a shoe they don't own.
It may not be the actual address - I noticed a shoe purchased a few hundred miles off the coast of Africa in an area without islands (I zoomed in to check!).
That's probably 0 degrees north, 0 degrees west, right on the Greenwich meridian and the equator, in the Gulf of Guinea. It's a spot that basically means "no data".
Ah, good one! The images don't correctly relocate when you zoom in, which might explain why I didn't notice the glaringly obvious dashed line...