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Limiting availability of archived GeoIP databases

January 14, 2019
This release note is more than two years old and may no longer reflect current behavior. View the latest release notes.

In order to address new legal requirements, including the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we will be limiting availability of archived GeoIP databases to 30 days. This change will be effective March 18, 2019 and applies to all GeoIP2, GeoIP, and GeoLite2 databases. You may need to change your processes or applications to download more recent databases once this change occurs.

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