Displaying full home address is especially dangerous. There's a reason why people pay for WHOIS privacy services to keep that private. Crazy people will use that information to show up at your home and harass you or even commit violence against you.

Presumably you could use a PO box but like paying for a second phone number that's another cost to keep small developers out of the Play Store. I imagine most parents won't want their teenager who made an app publishing their phone number and home address on the internet.

> I imagine most parents won't want their teenager who made an app publishing their phone number and home address on the internet.

You need to be 18+ to make a Google Developer account. If the app is monetized, said teenager would need to provide bank account information and deal with taxes, so the parents would need to be pretty involved in the process anyway.

Considering one of the fundamental points of a curated application store is end-user security, demanding that software publishers display their contact information is one of the most basic means of establishing and maintaining that security.

If the publisher takes money from their end-users, now more accurately their customers, it is an absolute requirement that their street or mailing address be also displayed for further security and liability purposes. Wouldn't you want to know exactly where your money is going? Wouldn't your bank? Wouldn't your accountant? Wouldn't your tax collectors?

I agree publishing your home street address for all to see isn't ideal, but that is why many people have separate street and mailing addresses and why the wiser folks also run their own business to publish their products under to separate commercial liabilities from their personal liabilities.