WhatsApp blocked again in Brazil, but this time indefinitely

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Relations between WhatsApp and the authorities of the Brazilian country are going from bad to worse. A few weeks ago a judge from the country block six million dollars of Facebook accounts in the country, since the messaging application does not have its own accounts in Brazil. Also at the beginning of the year, to try to pressure Facebook and to facilitate the private conversations requested by a judge, the vice president of Facebook in Latin America was detained for 24 hours. For a few weeks WhatsApp has added end-to-end encryption, so that only the sender and the receiver can access the conversations since they are never stored on the company's servers.

If before it was possible, even if WhatsApp denied them, now it is really impossible for the messaging platform to access the conversations requested by the country's courts, but it seems that this little problem, to call it somehow, has not quite entered the heads of the country's authorities. The latest move made by a judge in the Brazilian country is to order the five operators to block access to the WhatsApp platform immediately and indefinitely, blocking access to the messaging and calls platform via the internet used by more than one billion of people.

On this occasion, the reason why a judge in the country has blocked WhatsApp services is kept secret, but it is most likely due to the new requests that the judge will have made for the messaging platform to deliver the messages. conversations of possible criminals. According to the Globo publication, in addition Facebook will have to pay just over $ 15.000 every day to continue refusing to provide the data required by the judge.

Brazil is one of the most important markets for WhatsApp, since believed to be used by more than 100 million people, people who are being forced to change messaging platform. Telegram has all the papers to gain ground in the country after this indefinite suspension, since in previous suspensions of the service, it has benefited by obtaining a large number of new users.


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