Originally posted by oblio
saving an ip address in a database with data about the person who uses the IP address is invading privacy
Not if all they are storing is the approximate geographical location. It's not really invading your privacy unless it is personally identifying or arbitrary unrelated information which you wish to keep secret. If you feel that your IP address gives out too much information about you on it's own, you probably should be building your bomb shelter and stocking up on munitions.

. They offer no warning or anything, their privacy policy makes no mention of this database mapping ips to countries but they do admit that they store queries with ip addresses. They say in the privacy policy that they do not collect personal information from your browser, but it says nothing about this ip database.
They admit the store queries with IP addresses. They admit it. They show it. You use the service. So? If you don't like it, don't use it. They are providing a free service which helps you, and if they choose to take statistics (and mention it), who is the user to complain that he didn't read the privacy statement?

As for the IP->Location thing again... That's one of those things that I don't think really needs to be put in a privacy statement. It's fairly hard NOT to do, when logging certain hostnames, for instance. Blah.blah.blah.place.com.hk ... Wow! It's in Hong Kong!