If you don't know about what one flaw in the MaxMind database led 82-year-old Joyce Taylor of Kansas to, it is highly recommended that you read more about it on news sites.
Let's analyze the situation briefly and without unnecessary details: because of incorrect entries in the IP-address coordinate databases, a resident of a small farm in Kansas was subjected for several years to telephone threats, stalking, and visits from agents of the FBI and tax services. How an IP address database is involved is a logical question, so we'll try to explain. This fuss happened because the company that owns and administers the MaxMind database decided to simplify one of the pointers to geographic coordinates to a shortened form, and so about 600 million IP addresses were directed to this unfortunate farm, which caused the owner to get into trouble.
The "small flaw", which resulted in a nervous breakdown for Joyce Taylor, has already been corrected, but the information remained on the Internet about it, and after it the consequences, and this is not only about the coordinates of individual servers, there is a more global problem, which is what we are talking about today.