WhatsApp first officially banned then unbanned in Brazil
New Delhi: The grouchy relationship of Brazil with messaging service WhatsApp, again provoked a controversy in the nation as the app was temporarily banned.A Brazilian judge of a lower court ordered the telephone companies to cut off access to WhatsApp in the country after the owner FaceBook declined to provide chat details related to a criminal investigation.A report suggests that the judge took offense to the way WhatsApp responded to the court's demands.
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.
WhatsApp briefly blocked yet again in Brazil
A woman uses whatsapp as the decision of the Court of Rio to block instant messaging application was suspended on July 19, 2016 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.(Getty Images)The hugely popular WhatsApp smartphone messaging service was briefly blocked by a Brazilian court Tuesday for the third time in less than a year after failing to surrender user data to police.The latest drama ended after the Supreme Court president, Ricardo Lewandowski, accepted an appeal against a lower court order that shut down the service nearly four hours earlier.
WhatsApp temporarily banned in Brazil for a third time
WhatsApp was shut down in Brazil yesterday, marking the third time the messaging app has been banned in the country since last December.As was the case in the other two incidents, it wasn't too long before the Facebook-owned service was up and running again.Again, the ban revolved around Facebook's refusal to hand over WhatsApp chat logs related to a criminal investigation.
WhatsApp blocked, back up again after third court-order in Brazil – Naked Security
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