The vice president of Facebook in Latin America arrested because of WhatsApp

The headline you just read is correct. The Brazilian police have arrested the vice president of Facebook in South America when WhatsApp refused to share the information that the Brazilian police had requested. If you remember, at the beginning of the year, a judge ordered the suspension of the WhatsApp service in Brazil, since the company refused to again provide the country's police with information on the conversations that several drug traffickers had had.

The service was suspended for just over twelve hours, until another judge restored it. Telegram, the great alternative for many users, gained several million users in just a few hours. WhatsApp is found in 93% of the country's devices, being the most popular communication application in the country.

Diego Dzodan, vice president of Facebook in Latin America, was arrested yesterday by the authorities since it seems that the country's investigators associated the WhatsApp service with Mark Zuckerberg's company and as there is no WhatsApp office in the country, the head of both companies was the target selected by the police. As they say around here, in the absence of bread, good are cakes.

WhatsApp has never been characterized by encrypting messages between our phone and the recipient, as Telegram does, but only encrypts messages when they are sent from our phone and pass through its servers. For this reason, the Brazilian authorities can request the data they want that although they could, as the messages are encrypted, it would be impossible to deliver them to the police. A company spokesperson has stated that WhatsApp wants to collaborate with the authorities but in this particular case it is impossible due to the encryption of the messages.