Brazil Supreme Court overturns ruling against WhatsApp shutdown
Here's how to chat with new font on WhatsApp The developers have silently rolled out a new feature on the WhatsApp Android app which allows user to type in a new font, which is similar to Fixedsys in Windows.The Brazilian Supreme Court has overturned a ruling ordering the nationwide shutdown of the Facebook -owned WhatsApp instant messaging service, arguing that the move violated freedom of expression and communication.The high court's decision immediately cancelling the prior ruling on Tuesday was handed down by chief justice Ricardo Lewandowski after a motion was presented by the Socialist Popular Party (PPS), EFE news reported.The chief justice said that "the suspension of the service apparently violates the basic principle of freedom of expression and communication, enshrined in the Constitution, as well as prevailing legislation on the matter."The high court's ruling is technically temporary, at least until the matter can be decided upon by the full court, and it came within the framework of a motion made by the PPS several months ago against the decision by another judge to block WhatsApp This was the third time in eight months that the messaging service had been temporarily blocked in Brazil on a judge's order, but in all three cases the halts were overturned by higher courts.The app was blocked last December and again in May -- affecting some 100 million Brazilian users of the service -- by judges in different Brazilian cities but it returned to operation each time within 24 hours later via appeals court rulings.
WhatsApp officially un-banned in Brazil after third block in eight months
Baku, July 20, AZERTACBrazil's federal supreme court has suspended a judge's ruling ordering mobile phone companies to indefinitely block access to Facebook's WhatsApp – the third such decision against the popular phone messaging app in eight months.The Rio de Janeiro judge Daniela Barbosa ruled that access to the application should be blocked immediately because WhatsApp's owner, Facebook, had shown "total disrespect for Brazilian laws", theguardian.com saidHer decision said Facebook was repeatedly asked to intercept messages sent through the service to help in a criminal investigation in the city of Caxias, outside Rio.But hours later, her ruling was reversed by supreme court president Ricardo Lewandowski, who said that it seemed "scarcely reasonable or proportional."In a post on Facebook, WhatsApp's CEO, Jan Koum, said: "It's shocking that less than two months after Brazilian people and lawmakers loudly rejected blocks of services like WhatsApp, history is repeating itself."Whatsapp was also briefly blocked in December after an order by a judge in São Paulo.
WhatsApp back in Brazil after third suspension in three years
BRASILIA, Brazil, July 20 (UPI) -- WhatsApp, the messaging application used by more than 1 billion people worldwide, is operating once again in Brazil after it was suspended due to a criminal investigation.About 100 million users were affected in Brazil by the suspension, which lasted a few hours.It is the third WhatsApp suspension in three years.
Brazil mulls bill to avert WhatsApp shutdowns, paper says
An illustration photo shows the Whatsapp application logo on a mobile phone in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 2, 2016.SAO PAULO The Brazilian government plans to draft a bill regulating judicial access to digital data in criminal investigations, following the third nationwide court-mandated shutdown of the popular WhatsApp messaging service since December, newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo reported on Wednesday.According to Estado, Justice Minister Alexandre de Moraes said the bill should provide a framework for cooperation with authorities without depriving about 100 million users of the popular Facebook Inc messaging service.
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