This has been known for a long time. They offer mitigating controls. Doing a geoip lookup is misleading to the average person - it's not that fine grained!
Fine grained enough to narrow down the user to what country they are in as well as what general area in that country.
Then there’s the fact they’ll have the ISP they are connecting with as well.
That’s more than enough for anyone with the power to determine if you fall within their jurisdiction and what ISP to subpoena for fine grained account specifics, like name and address, while notifying whatever assets they have in the general vicinity before hand using the general location that came from the ARIN data.
An app like telegram that exists for user privacy should not leak your ip address, ever, nor should it require your mobile number to auth or use contacts & numbers to find your people. I feel like the world has gone insane and nobody noticed haha
Then there’s the fact they’ll have the ISP they are connecting with as well.
That’s more than enough for anyone with the power to determine if you fall within their jurisdiction and what ISP to subpoena for fine grained account specifics, like name and address, while notifying whatever assets they have in the general vicinity before hand using the general location that came from the ARIN data.
An app like telegram that exists for user privacy should not leak your ip address, ever, nor should it require your mobile number to auth or use contacts & numbers to find your people. I feel like the world has gone insane and nobody noticed haha