>Google claims to "anonymize" IP addresses, but it turns out that they only obscure the last two or three digits, which isn't enough to conceal the identity of

>Google claims to "anonymize" IP addresses, but it turns out that they only obscure the last two or three digits, which isn't enough to conceal the identity of the individual. Is there any reason why they wouldn't just hash the IP? They only need to see it once to extract useful information from the IP itself.