A member of MSN's Virtual Earth team was compelled to post a response to security concerns raised over the Windows Live Local "Locate Me" feature.
Mike Liebhold (Y)ou might understand that I was quite surprised and dismayed that Microsoft's IP lookup returned my actual location in the woods in Northern California !!!
Just to be sure they didn't get my address from my satellite service provider, I called the Network Operations Center, who said the location of my dish is private, but looked up my record anyway, and confirmed "Our database, and the IANA database show your IP address is in San Diego."
Clearly Microsoft's IP location database includes spooky datamined information about users' actual location that is not normally available by querying the publicly accessible databases.
Chandu Thota, SDE Lead for Virtual Earth, heavily no personal information such as your name or contact information is sent to Microsoft by Location Finder service.
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