I’m guessing Japan would also want to avoid that.

Location purely from IP address just gets you the right country, that is about as accurate as it gets. It gets the location of my ISP, not of my device.

We’re going to need a sanctioned phone just for banking and another one for everything else. Plus maybe a third one to take to demonstrations etc. Just great :(

Yeah, good luck to them, but are we doing press releases as technology news now?