How to identify customers on Financial app under Private relay feature

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Created Jul ’21

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Hello everyone,

With an upcoming feature of Private Relay. The user will be able to cloak theirs information of their origin such as IP address.

However, with the current development of local Banking / Financial applications in my country. We are using theirs cellular network IP address to help identify their rights to use the application.

Now with the Private relay feature, it will break this mechanic. I'm not sure if anyone can help suggest alternate ways for this to work?

Or else perhaps we should go back to use 2FA from SMS instead.

Best Regards, Terry

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Pruthisith OP

Jul ’21

I just finished watching the session here. https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10096/

it seems usage of IP addresses for location will be overrated for iOS15. Apple suggests using CoreLocation instead to determine the user location in which the user is already agreed to share.

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Systems Engineer OP

Apple

Jul ’21

Now with the Private relay feature, it will break this mechanic. I'm not sure if anyone can help suggest alternate ways for this to work?

Take a look at the document that was posted yesterday for Prepare Your Network for iCloud Private Relay. Note the part that says, "The egress IP address also accurately represents the client’s coarse city-level location by default, allowing your network to receive relevant location information when attempting to enforce geo-based restrictions based on IP address. "

Matt Eaton
DTS Engineering, CoreOS
meaton3@apple.com

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