[marvy]

Thanks for the above. (nice self-restraint in the last paragraph.) Things almost make sense now. Except one problem ... this implies that there are software developers who think to themselves "given a cell phone number, how can I get the phone's location?".

And it further implies that these people don't immediately follow that thought with: "That's surely impossible, since it would be a privacy nightmare if literally everyone in the world could track everyone else in the world's every move".

Or perhaps with this alternative thought, which would lead to the same conclusion: "let's not worry about privacy, how would this even work? Does every phone company in the world pro-actively send every customer's location data to OpenCage, just in case someone queries it? Or does OpenCage wait until it gets a query, and only then query the cell phone company 'just-in-time'? Both of these sound like a lot of work for each phone company to support ... what's the incentive?"

Honestly, I'm a bit surprised that the OpenCage blog post is so calm about this, instead of just yelling incoherently "why WHY why would anyone think like this?!?"