I've discovered one of my newly acquired powers is to see the location of a member's IP address. This would conveniently let me add location to a question when appropriate and avoid discussing US-centric solutions to a Non-USian member. It would also save the comment 'country?' that's pretty frequent here.
But. Is it a bit creepy for a new member to see his question tagged with a country when he didn't offer it himself?
The ability to see IP addresses is meant for moderation purposes, not for anything else. Adding the location of the user based on this moderator-only information could be seen as a violation of the moderator agreement as you're indirectly disclosing PII to all other users.
In short, this is problematic at least and might even be a violation of the moderator agreement and the SE privacy policy.
Aside from the previously noted privacy concerns, which are probably valid, it's not necessarily the correct jurisdiction. Some proportion of questions are hypothetical, future-oriented, past-oriented, or asked while in a different jurisdiction or on behalf of remote acquaintances. So the assumption based on the asker's IP will be incorrect some small but noticeable number of times.
