The American social networking service provider calls people to protest in a favor of a legislation aiming to safeguard WhatsApp from suspension
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called Brazilians to raise a demand that his American social networking organization’s messaging service WhatsApp should never be suspended again on 2nd May 2016 overturned the second suspension of the application in 5 months. In a post on his Facebook page, Mark urged Brazilians to gather outside Brazil’s legislature Congress in Brasilia, which is the Brazilian capital at 2100 GMT( 6pm) on 4th April 2016 to rally for favoring a law that would ban the internet services suspension in the future.
On 2nd April 2016 WhatsApp was blocked in Brazil after a judge in the Brazilian state Sergpie ordered the 5 main telecoms of the country to suspend access to the application for 3 days. The reason behind the order wasn’t publicized. The suspension of the text message as well as internet voice telephone facility of WhatsApp for smartphones was lifted after around a day when an appeals judge on 3rd April 2016 gave a ruling favoring an injunction by the lawyers of the organization.
You and your friends can help make sure this never happens again, and I hope you get involved,” Zuckerberg posted on the platform. He mentioned a uniform resource locator to a request, calling efforts made to suspend communication “very scary in a democracy”.
The block highlights increasing global tensions between the privacy concerns of the tech companies and efforts of the national authorities to use social network to gain details on potential criminal activities. The same judge in the state gave an order to imprison a Brazil-based official of Facebook in March in a battle over demands to reach the encrypted messaging facility of company under a drug trafficking probe.
On 2nd April 2016, WhatsApp stated it was “disappointed” at the decision by judge to block its facilities. It stated it missed the utmost to collaborate with tribunals in Brazil, but it didn’t possess the details the court requested it to provide. Spokesman of Facebook Matt Steinfeld stated officials of WhatsApp recently had a meeting with judicial officals and law enforcers to enhance communication and clarify that the organization can’t see encrypted messages of users and doesn’t store them following transmission.
In 5 months, WhatsApp has been blocked second time in the nation. A São Paulo state judge ruled it close down for 2 days on 15th December, after the networking organization was unable to act according to a ruling. Another state court lifted that ban shortly afterwards.
The suspension on Monday angered a large number of people in the state, where the messaging service is by far the most famous messaging application and installed on over 90% of Android products.
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