study whether the use of IP geolocation could in fact be a viable solution to determine the location of a user connected to the internet. The panel agreed that Yahoo! could have used this technology in order to block users from France to access prohibited content. The court ordered Yahoo! to add geo-location filtering to its services.

2000-present

In the 2010s and early 2020s, building accurate, large-scale, and publicly verifiable IP geolocation databases remained problematic. Traditional geolocation techniques, including

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