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Can I Disable IP Geolocation for GDPR Compliance?

Issue

We don't want to track our user's geolocations for GDPR reasons, but it seems that Sentry still determines the user's location based on their IP address.

Applies To

  • All customers

Resolution

By default, Sentry will derive geographic context (e.g., city, region, country) from the IP addresses associated with events.

For organisations with strict data privacy requirements, especially under GDPR, this behaviour might not be acceptable.

Open the Security & Privacy settings of your project, and at the "Additional Sensitive Fields" under Data Scrubbing, add the following list - make sure to leave a new line after every entry, and please give our server about 5 to 15 minutes to register the change.

city
subdivision
region
country_code
ip_address

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