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What do you mean by "people's" data? It's information about an IP address that is completely public. You could find it by going to ipinfo.io/<any random IP address>, or by using various tools or other websites to look it up.

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It's the recent accesses by those IP addresses as well. Don't be thick.

It's a sample of IPs that have recently been looked up, which doesn't necessarily mean that IP visited the site or used the API.

I wouldn't use the service as long as recent look-ups were publicised.

@prawn (sorry can't reply directly) - interesting, I didn't think this was a big deal at all. Can you explain your reservations?

The page is actually only there for SEO purposes, so that google indexes these IPs without me having to go to the trouble of building a site map. If there's genuine concerns or issues with that page then I'll kill it.

I think he's talking about the recent IP list itself.

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