Ron Burgundy Posted May 3, 2016 Share Posted May 3, 2016 By Natalia Scalzaretto SAO PAULO (Reuters) - A Brazilian judge on Tuesday overturned a suspension of Facebook Inc's WhatsApp messaging application that affected some 100 million users, after many people voiced frustration at the second such freeze in five months in the South American country. On Monday, a judge in the northeastern state of Sergipe had ordered Brazil's five main wireless operators to block access to WhatsApp for 72 hours. The judge who ordered the suspension, Marcel Maia Montalvão, in March ordered the imprisonment of a Brazil-based Facebook executive in a dispute over law enforcement demands for data from the company’s encrypted messaging service for use in a drug trafficking investigation. View the full article Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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