Judge declared blockade for 48 hours. Owner of Facebook, which bought WhatsApp in 2014, says it is a sad day for Brazil
A Brazilian judge ordered the blockade of WhatsApp throughout Brazil. The application of instant messaging crashed into the night on Wednesday, according to the news site G1 , because the country’s leading telecommunications operators were ordered by the courts to suspend the service throughout the country for 48 hours, from midnight on 17 December.
The decision, however confirmed by the São Paulo Court of Justice, follows on from a process that takes place in judicial secrecy . The court ensures that WhatsApp, purchased in February 2014 by Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, did not respond to a court order of July 23, 2015. The company will have been notified since the August 7 and he was fixed in a fine event of default. Has not responded, the Court of Justice of São Paulo decided by the application of the blockade for 48 hours.
According to the G1 , the union representing Vivo operators, Claro, Tim, Hi, Sercomtel and Algar has explained that companies are required to meet the court’s order, although not having any “interest” in this block.
Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook who also owns the WhatsApp, commented the Brazilian court decision: the social network, published a brief text condemning the blockade of WhatsApp “to more than 100 million” users. “We are working hard to reverse this blockade,” ensures Zuckerberg, reminding Brazilians who may use, as an alternative, application exchange of Facebook messages. “It’s a sad day for Brazil,” said the American, saying the country had always been “an ally in the creation of an open internet.”
“I am shocked that our efforts to protect personal data have resulted in a decision to such an extreme form of a single judge, who decided to punish all the people in Brazil who use WhatsApp “also writes Zuckerberg. And let an appeal: “If you are Brazilian, please makes your voice heard and help your government to reflect on the will of its people”
This is not the first attempt. block WhatsApp in Brazil: in February this year, according to the G1 , a judge in Teresina, state of Piaui, determined that operators temporarily suspend access to the application, because the company refused to provide information to one police investigation started in 2013.
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