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by tkone 3079 days ago
They said they only did this for US based IP addresses. (Not that it makes it OK...)
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Not explicitly, they might have been just using US data as an example in this blog post.

Even if they aren't, I still wonder that if they're checking everyones IP addresses against that database, essentially sharing our access of SO with a third-party, would it still be an inappropriate use of personally identifiable information?

It seems they're using data from a company called MaxMind https://www.maxmind.com/en/geoip2-isp-database#features .

Quoting their website, "The organization name is available for about 40% of corporate, government, and educational networks."