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Subdivision, city, and postal fields blanked in additional countries

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Effective tomorrow, Wednesday, January 7, 2026, we will be blanking out the city and postal fields more often for cell networks in the following countries:

  • Argentina
  • Australia
  • Germany
  • France
  • Japan
  • Poland
  • Spain
  • Turkey

We will also be blanking out the subdivision, city, and postal fields more often in:

  • Finland
  • Switzerland

This change is to reduce false positives when the end users of a network are dispersed all over the subdivision or country.

The update will be reflected in the following products and services:

  • GeoIP City database
  • GeoIP Enterprise database
  • GeoIP City Plus web service
  • GeoIP Insights web service
  • minFraud Factors web service
  • minFraud Insights web service

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