Court in Brazil reportedly suspends order blocking WhatsApp
The third Brazilian court-ordered ban on messaging application WhatsApp in recent months has been suspended, Reuters reported on Tuesday.The news service reported that the country's Supreme Court had suspended the ruling of a lower-court judge ordering five of the nation's wireless carriers to block the service.ADVERTISEMENTWhatsApp has repeatedly come into conflict with Brazilian authorities over demands for user data from the Facebook-owned service.
WhatsApp Is Briefly Shut Down in Brazil for a Third Time
PhotoRIO DE JANEIRO — For months, authorities in Brazil have sought access to digital data from WhatsApp to aid in criminal investigations.WhatsApp has repeatedly resisted the requests.On Tuesday, the same clash erupted again, for the third time in less than a year.
WhatsApp gets blocked and unblocked in Brazil before Olympics
WhatsApp, one of the world's most popular messaging apps, has entered another round of fighting with Brazil, home to more than 100 million of the app's roughly 1 billion users.On Tuesday, a judge in Rio de Janeiro state ordered the country's main service providers to block access to the messaging app or face fines of roughly $15,000 a day.The judge issued the order because of what the Spanish newspaper El País characterized as her frustration with the app's lack of compliance with court orders to turn over information related to ongoing cases.
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