Drop storing member IP addresses and coordinates on DB

[muratcorlu]

geolocation column of members table holds many unneeded properties including IP address and coordinates (derived from the IP address) of the members. We only use country, country_code and region properties of that object stored in geolocation column. These "unintended" extra data poses a privacy and security risk for all Ghost sites. Also these "personally identifiable" informations that we collect without consent is against many privacy rules like GDPR.

We should only keep data we need on that column. Also it's needed to have a one-time job that cleans-up those geolocation data previously stored.

[Max-Bosoy]

Thank you, muratcorlu!

I would like to drop ALL info with IP, including country, country_code and region. This is absolutely useless information that should not be collected automatically. This information imposes excessive obligations on the site owner to store personal data.

If any user of a site really needs to have information about his geolocation, then he can manually add this data to the settings of his personal profile. There is no need to collect this data automatically.