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South America has spent the last decade writing GDPR-style privacy laws almost continent-wide, from Brazil's LGPD to Chile's newly overhauled statute, even as several of its governments face real accusations of using surveillance and defamation law against journalists and critics.
This project answers the same twenty questions used across the Digital Rights Atlas for all 12 countries of South America, covering data privacy, artificial intelligence, surveillance, and free expression online. Built from real statutes, official regulator guidance, and reporting from groups such as Freedom House, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and ARTICLE19, so you can compare what is protected on paper against what actually happens in practice.
Content last verified: September 1, 2026. Laws and enforcement patterns shift — always confirm current status before relying on this for a legal decision.
Pick two to five countries below to line up their answers to all twenty questions in one table.
Each country answers the same twenty questions across a set of flyer cards, with its bio and cited sources underneath. Pick any country on the map above and it will open right here.
This page covers 12 countries. Every other region, plus the full 195-country globe, uses the same twenty-question atlas.