Rome – The new court case involving WhatsApp and its Brazilian users started with the decision of the Rio de Janeiro judge Daniela Barbosa, who ordered the national providers to block the Facebook app submissions that could boast a lot of popularity among users of the South American country.
the blockade Barbosa fact prevents 100 million Brazilian users to exchange messages on Telefonica Brasil network, Claro, TIM, Oi and Nextel, with a daily fine of more than $ 15,000 for failure to observe the injunction; the lock will remain in place as long as WhatsApp will not allow the authorities to access the user’s posts, the judge ruled the Brazilian megalopolis.
But the authorities can never get your hands on messages whose content is protected by cryptographic protocols and WhatsApp just limited to vehicles from user to user, said back at the CEO and co-founder of the company Jan Koum. History repeats itself, said Koum, in a country which in recent times has not a very easy relationship with technology for encrypted communications.
In Brazil WhatsApp was in fact already been blocked in December 2015, then again in May and in March had even led to the arrest of a Facebook executive. In previous cases, the controversy had always resolved in favor of WhatsApp, and also in the new story the solution came rather quickly.The Federal Supreme Court of Brazil has in fact suspended the judgment of Judge Daniela Barbosa, a decision that is precedence to the requirements of communications and respect the privacy of the South American users against the claims of global seizure of the lower court judges.
Alfonso Maruccia
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