Quan-Madrid and 1UP reporter Jemery Parish noted that the Japanese culture does not have the same racial population as western countries like the United States, and as such, blackface or other similar representations of black persons are taken for granted in that country, and localization usually handles such issues.
In countries like India and Indonesia, localization appears to be less popular.
In order to do that you need to create a group, meaning any defining of choosing a tag (coca cola, jazz, web2.0, elvisfans,…) as well as a localization (a country and a city that are pre-defined).
Globally, the site claims over 500 million registered users making its China number a relative drop in the ocean, however LinkedIn previously had just four million users in the country prior to its localization.
More authoritarian countries are using data localization to their own ends – as a means of control over civilian populations; continuing the status quo; and maintenance of a despotic monopoly on power.
Called Fortumo Expand, the program offers Android, Windows Phone and Windows 8 developers access to the Estonia/U.S.-based company's network of mobile carriers in 80 countries, as well as localization, testing, distribution and marketing services.
And it needs to take the foreign policy implications of its actions seriously: When EU countries talk about data localization, others do, too.
According to Aditya Kalra in Reuters, an influential cloud policy panel has recommended that India mandate data localization in the country, for investigative and national security reasons, in a draft report set to be released later this year.
Patient data were obtained from the Netherlands Tuberculosis Register and included date of birth, date of arrival in the Netherlands, time of diagnosis, localization of tuberculosis, country of origin, and sex.
