San Paolo, February 28, 2015 – A Brazilian judge has ordered the suspension of the instant messaging service WhatsApp on throughout the country, “until the completion of the court order.” The service, however, is still in operation as the mobile operators have appealed against the decision of the court of the state of Piaui Luiz Moura Correia, who would not disclose the reason for the decision. “It is covered by the confidentiality of investigations,” he said.
The Secretariat of Public Security of the state of the Brazilian Northeast, however, has revealed that the suspension has been decided WhatsApp after she refused to remove some photos of “underage girls and exhibited sexually”, which are the center of a survey conducted in 2013 by the prosecutor of minors to Teresina , the state capital of Piauí. Facebook, owner of WhatsApp, said in a statement that the operations of the two companies are independent and therefore does not intend to take a position on the matter. SindiTelebrasil, the union that already brings together mobile operators in the South American country, has described as “disproportionate” the judge’s decision. “The measure is disproportionate, because to get information on a small number of people, denied by the owner of WhatsApp, you want to stop the service across the country. And for this reason, calls for the application of the measure to the phone operators, that have no relationship with that service, “it said in a statement.
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