Completely unbased in facts, I know nothing factual, but… as a hypothesis…
The government whose laws govern a media sharing service could certainly say "All content generated in this list of geofenced areas must be flagged to the legal observing authority XYZ, even if geotags are not a part of the ultimately published content."
Country A would probably care a bit less about services governed by their own laws. Even if such a secret law existed it wouldn't be used against them.
Whereas Country A might care more about services in adversarial Country B where it can be used to turn an intractable search problem into a targeted search.
Completely unbased in facts, I know nothing factual, but… as a hypothesis…
The government whose laws govern a media sharing service could certainly say "All content generated in this list of geofenced areas must be flagged to the legal observing authority XYZ, even if geotags are not a part of the ultimately published content."
Country A would probably care a bit less about services governed by their own laws. Even if such a secret law existed it wouldn't be used against them.
Whereas Country A might care more about services in adversarial Country B where it can be used to turn an intractable search problem into a targeted search.