Brazilian Supreme Court overturns WhatsApp ban within hours
Just hours after it was issued, a ban on WhatsApp in Brazil was reportedly overturned by the country's Supreme Court, which argued that the measure may not have been reasonable or proportionate."We hope that this puts an end to blocks that have punished millions of Brazilians and that people can continue using services like WhatsApp to stay in touch with those who matter to them," a WhatsApp spokesperson said, according to TechCrunch.Yesterday's brief ban was the third to impact the Facebook-owned company in the past year, though a fourth was appealed before it could take effect.The lower-court judge who issued the ban, Daniela Barbosa, did so because WhatsApp refused to hand over conversation data wanted in a criminal investigation.
A Brazilian court banned the Facebook (FB)-owned WhatsApp for the third time in a year — Quartz
Brazil yesterday banned Whatsapp for the third time in eight months—but the ban was lifted after only four hours.On July 19, a Brazilian court ordered an indefinite ban on WhatsApp for refusing to intercept and provide authorities with messages from the platform for criminal investigations, Reuters reported.Telephone operators were notified to suspend the service at around 11.30am local time, according to O Globo (link in Portuguese).
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Further Reading Brazil frees imprisoned Facebook exec who couldn't decrypt WhatsApp messages UPDATE 6:45pm ET: Reuters reports that Brazil's Federal Supreme Court has now suspended the ruling by the lower court judge, which ordered mobile phone carriers to block access to WhatsApp."We're pleased that people can access WhatsApp again in Brazil," Matt Steinfeld, a WhatsApp spokesman, e-mailed Ars in a statement.Our original story follows:For the third time in less than a year, a Brazilian judge has ordered (Google Translate) messaging app WhatsApp to be blocked by the country's five major mobile phone companies.
Brazilian Judge Blocks WhatsApp Nationwide
A judge on Tuesday suspended the WhatsApp smartphone messaging service across Brazil, where it is hugely popular, for failing to surrender user data in a police investigation."WhatsApp is blocked across the whole national territory," a spokesman for the court in Rio de Janeiro told AFP.WhatsApp, owned by Facebook, has clashed several times with Brazilian courts after refusing to give access to police.
WhatsApp Gets Reprieve After Another Brazilian Ban
WhatsApp's delicate relationship with the Brazilian authorities took another turn for the worse on Tuesday after a Rio judge ordered telcos to block the messaging platform, before herself being overruled.Judge Daniela Barbosa ordered the ban after claiming WhatsApp owner Facebook had shown "total disrespect for Brazilian laws" by failing to provide messages sent via the platform to help in a criminal investigation.In reality, what the judge again failed to grasp is that WhatsApp could not provide the content of the messages as its service is fully end-to-end encrypted.
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