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Updates to geolocation confidence factors

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Starting tomorrow, Tuesday, March 24 2026, we’re deploying updates to our geolocation confidence factors to make them more accurate.

For networks located outside of the United States, we will be adjusting country level confidence to be higher in circumstances where those networks are used exclusively in a single country.

For all networks, we will be improving the accuracy of our subdivision, city, and postal confidence. These will be minor changes. Most significantly, some subdivision confidence values of 99 will be reduced to 95.

The following products and services will be improved:

  • GeoIP Insights web service
  • GeoIP Enterprise database
  • minFraud Insights web services
  • minFraud Factors web services

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