Although in the last hour is still working, users will soon have to tell him farewell: a judge in Brazil has ordered a halt to WhatsApp because of the refusal of the app to delete some photos of child pornography.
The judge of a court of the state of Piaui, Luiz Moura Correia, has imposed the blockade of the app in the entire country “until the completion of the court order” but without disclosing the reasons for this decision. “It is covered by the confidentiality of investigations,” he said.
Only later, the secretary of public security of the state with its capital Teresina was later revealed that the blockade of the app, which is not active yet due the appeal filed by the phone operators, is due to the fact that WhatsApp has removed some photos of “underage girls and sexually exhibited” at the center of an investigation that began in 2013.
In the story was pulled in Facebook also, as the owner of WhatsApp, who said in a statement that the operation of the two giants are completely independent. The most popular social network in the world does not intend to take any position on the matter and move away any liability.
Meanwhile SindiTelebrasil, the union of the mobile operators in Brazil, believes “disproportionate” the judge’s decision: second the union can not block a service that works across the country to obtain information on a few people.
Author: Angela Sorrentino
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