WhatsApp shut down in Brazil for third time
WhatsApp was shut down by a Brazilian court for the third time in little more than six months on Tuesday before being reinstated several hours later.The ban, which came after authorities demanded that the Facebook-owned messaging app hand over information related to a criminal investigation, lasted around four hours.WhatsApp has around 100 million users in Brazil, roughly half the South American country's population.
WhatsApp briefly blocked yet again in Brazil
Rio de Janeiro: 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.It was not clear how quickly WhatsApp would go back on line.
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