Who defines 'censorship' at issue as US, allies spar over freedom of speech

By Mike Swift and Henrique Santiago ( February 28, 2025, 23:01 GMT | Comment) -- President Donald Trump and his allies’ aggressive stance toward long-time allies on trade and on other political issues is increasingly spilling into the law-based regulation of multi-national tech platforms. Much of the friction between the US, the UK and Brazil is over content moderation. But with a new probe of X Corp.'s use of personal data to train its artificial intelligence systems by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, data privacy is also being cast into that international political cauldron.X Corp. may have violated Canada’s national privacy law by using Canadians’ personal data to train its artificial intelligence systems without first getting consent, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada said this week in announcing a new probe....

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Who defines 'censorship' at issue as US, allies spar over freedom of speech

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