Translations:Trust and Safety Product/IP Info/98/en

Privacy risk: Not everyone is aware of what an IP address string reveals. Many people don't know that unregistered editing leaves a fingerprint which can be used to track them. A lot of registered editors do not know this either. This leads to unintentional privacy for unregistered users (Security through obscurity). Depending on who gets to see the information exposed by this feature, there is a risk of more users seeing the data than before.