Digital privacy has quietly become one of the region’s more pressing and least discussed problems. A region that went mobile before it went protectedMuch of Latin America skipped the desktop era and jumped straight to smartphones. Data protection laws that are catching up unevenlyThe legal picture is improving, but it is patchy. Brazil’s General Data Protection Law, known as the LGPD, is the region’s most developed framework and draws heavily on the European model. What comes nextLatin America’s privacy challenge is not going to be solved by any single law, tool, or awareness campaign.