according to the materials of the site - By Cointelegraph

Co-founder of Ethereum Vitalik Buterin called the new feature X, which reveals the country of the account owner, 'risky,' agreeing with cryptocurrency users who expressed concerns about privacy.

Product director of X Nikita Bir announced the launch of the feature on Saturday, calling it a way to ensure the integrity of the platform and give users the ability to verify information.

On Sunday, Buterin stated that some accounts would eventually 'find ways to pose as users from other countries,' but initially believed that this change could have positive effects, such as allowing a better understanding of how people from different communities view various issues.
Many cryptocurrency users expressed concerns that malicious actors might use this feature for easier identification of major investors to attack them personally, and also expressed worries about privacy.

'I thought about this in more detail and believe that the survey participants are right: disclosing the country without consent, without offering an opt-out possibility, even to stop using the account, is wrong,' Buterin later said.

'In most cases, disclosing the country still leaves a very large anonymous access, but there are people for whom even a small data leak is risky, and their privacy should not be violated retroactively without a recovery option.'

Uniswap founder Hayden Adams is also vehemently against the new feature and stated: 'I hate it. Voluntary doxxing is fine, mandatory doxxing is psychosis.'

Andrey David, the technical director of the decentralized finance platform Summer.fi, also expressed concern about the implications for privacy.

The problem is not in stating the country; it makes everyone visible without warning. A privacy-sensitive feature should always start with the least disclosing parameter,' he said.

Cryptocurrency users explained how to opt out of this feature.
Beer stated that a privacy switch has been introduced, allowing only the account region to be displayed 'for those living in countries where freedom of speech is punished.'

User X under the pseudonym Langerius, head of the Web3 community and consulting group Hunters of Web3, reported that interested users can opt out of the new feature.
'If you want to hide it: 1. Turn off: 'Settings and privacy' → 'Privacy and security' → 'Disable country visibility' 2. Or switch from country to region/continent in the same menu,' they explained.

Other users X reacted to the new feature more positively. Some claimed that disclosing the account's location in a country the size of the USA with a population of about 350 million people is unlikely to easily identify anyone.

Others, including cryptocurrency venture investor Nick Carter, stated that this feature is necessary to prevent attempts to interfere with politics by accounts linked to foreign users posing as users from a specific country.


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