WhatsApp managed to get a favorable decision by the Court of Sergipe and down the block in Brazil imposed since Monday (2). The judge of Sergipe Court Ricardo Múcio Santana Abreu Lima accepted a request for reconsideration of WhatsApp lawyers.
With this, the service should resume functioning so operators are notified and make adjustments your telephone network.
With the decision, the Court of Sergipe drop the blockade that had been determined by the judge Marcel Maia Montalban, the Criminal Court of Lagarto, Sergipe. He had determined that the operators TIM, Hi, Claro, Vivo, and Nextel suspend access to WhatsApp for 72 hours from 14h on Monday.
WhatsApp lawyers had filed an appeal against the determination but were not successful because the judge Cezário Siqueira Neto denied the request.
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the application lock was requested because Facebook, owner of WhatsApp, failed to fulfill an earlier court decision to share information that subsidize a criminal investigation into drug trafficking in the city of Lizard, 75 km from Aracaju.
the refusal had resulted in the arrest of the president of Facebook for Latin America in March this year, also determined by Marcel Montalban judge, Criminal Lizard court, responsible for the decision that blocked the application.
the magistrate responded to a request for injunction of the Federal Police, which was endorsed by opinion of the public prosecutor. The fine for companies in the blocking of non-compliance case is $ 500,000 per day.
Application says he has no data
In a statement, WhatsApp lamented decision and said he did not have the information required by the judge. Tuesday, Jan Koum, one of WhatsApp developers, said the app unhistorical guard message of its members and suggested that meet the demands of the Brazilian courts would put at risk the safety not only of Brazilian users, but all users on world.
After the impact of the decision, the TJSE site showed instability on Monday afternoon. The problem remains in the early morning hours of Tuesday.
Anonymous Brazil has claimed responsibility for the attack and said it had shot down the TJSE site to protest the decision to block the application. The TJSE’s press office has not confirmed that the site was hacked. Once the agency realized the possibility of an attack, decided to block the Internet to protect the data network.
Other locks
It is not the first time that a court decides to suspend access to the chat service in Brazil.
the previous block occurred in December 2015 when the Justice of São Paulo ordered the company prevented the connection for 48 hours in retaliation for WhatsApp refusing to cooperate with a criminal investigation.
the application was inaccessible for 12 hours and returned to work by decision of the SP Court of Justice.
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