… South Korea had fined Google $177 million in 2021 for restricting phone makers from customizing Android, and has fined Meta at least three times since 2020 over data privacy issues. …
… In the U.S., RedNote could also face questions about censorship and data privacy if it grows influential. …
… As municipalities like Mexico City and Juárez build vast surveillance networks in the name of public safety, researchers say the privacy trade-offs are too high. “They are systems that, on the one hand, do not seem to have much of an impact in the reduction of crime nor criminal investigations,” Sa… …