Kansas family sues mapping company for years of 'digital hell'

Geolocation company's glitch sent police and angry businesses to a remote Kansas farm looking for criminals - now the residents want compensation

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 company responsible.

James and Theresa Arnold sued MaxMind on Friday, filing a complaint in the US district court in Kansas. MaxMind, based in Massachusetts, allows companies to find out the location of the computers used by individuals to access their websites.