More than 90% of the users of smartphones in Brazil use WhatsApp. WhatsApp is has become in the form usual of communication between them users of the country, both that when has left of operate temporarily, by problems in the service or by the lock of them courts, many users are have seen forced to change of platform, mainly Telegram, for to follow in contact with their friends and family.
A few months ago, the authorities in Brazil are behind WhatsApp for them provide information related to criminal acts that are investigating, but have always received the same answer from the company. Sometimes have directly blocked the operation of the messaging application to coerce the company that has always offered the same response: do not keep the conversations on our servers.
But seems that them judges of the country not just of understand the motive of the negative of the company to not facilitate them messages requested of them suspected that are being investigated and again has returned to the load. A judge has issued an order of $ 6 million from the accounts of Facebook in Brazil, owner of WhatsApp, since the messaging platform has no accounts in the country.
According to the judge, Facebook has refused to deliver unsolicited messages that are related to an international network of trafficking in cocaine, research that is being conducted from January, as reported by Reuters. The application of them data is is delaying already five months and the money frozen is must to the amount equivalent to the fines that has gone accumulating it company in all this time.
Last March, the Brazilian authorities detained the Vice-President of Latin America Diego Dzodan for obstruction of justice by not providing data related to this research, although one day was released. WhatsApp says that it can not offer this information because it keeps no details of the talks but also in April implemented a system of encryption end-to-end for all communications, not only for text messages but also to calls VoIP.
