Online Financial Journal / EFE
A second instance judge today ordered the mobile operators in Brazil restore the service WhatsApp, blocked from midnight Wednesday across the country by order of a criminal court, the Court of Sao Paulo reported.
The decision was taken immediately and provisionally by the holder of the Eleventh Criminal Chamber, Xavier de Souza, but merit will still have to be analyzed by the court.
The application lock for 48 hours in Brazil was decided on Wednesday by a judge in the city Sao Bernardo do Campo, the refusal of Whatsapp of provide information requested within a criminal investigation against a service user.
The new sentence believes that “by virtue of constitutional principles, it is unreasonable that millions of users are affected by the failure of the company to provide information to the justice. “
Souza also defended the increase in the value of the fine for” inhibit any resistance “WhatsApp to cooperate with the judicial authorities, an action that will be reviewed by the House .
The cause that determined the lock has not been revealed as part of a criminal proceeding that is under a gag order, but is known to be related to a court order of July 23 2015 at which the mobile app did not answer.
On August 7, 2015, according to the decision, the company was notified again and fined if they do not enforce it settled down. But as Whatsapp not responded, justice finally demanded blocking services within 48 hours from last midnight.
The creator of Facebook and Whatsapp owner, Mark Zuckerberg said in your social network that he was “shocked” by the decision of the Brazilian judge that their “efforts to protect the data of people end up in such an extreme decision of a single judge to punish each and every one of the people in Brazil Whatsapp using. “
Zuckerberg said it was” sad one day “for the country, because in his opinion,” the Brazilians have always been among the most passionate about sharing your voice online “.
And concluded: “If you are Brazilian, please make your voice and helps you hear your government to reflect the will of its people”
Chile
But the difficulties with the application are not just Brazil. In Chile, the service has also been affected due to the problems presented Level 3, the company in charge of one of the two international links that connect Chile.
As a result, all the operators that use this link, including Entel, GTD and VTR, they were having problems usually offer the service.
Since VTR told that since migrating their traffic to TIWS other international link that belongs to Telefónica, and Whatsapp using normalized among its clients.
Movistar users have had no problems with the application.
The fall of Whatsapp has benefited its main rival, Telegram. Through his Twitter account, the app boasted of winning 1.5 million new users in just two hours after the blockade in Brazil.
Fans Whatsapp
The fall of Whatsapp had wide repercussions in Chile due to the high penetration with the smartphone and the application itself.
According to the latest study from comScore, it is the “app” messaging Instant most commonly used Chileans. In fact, 85% report frequent use, which is twice the world average.
“The success of WhatsApp is because it was the first application that replaced the use of text messages. It is an application designed to use from the phone, which ended with the ‘pain’ of users who wanted to keep a conversation but they must pay for each message sent. Today with Whatsapp all messages, unlimited characters and the ability to send images and audio, as well as calls are associated with cellular data plan that the person is already paying. In addition, today the most used phones that can connect to the Internet, so if there is no associated data plan is also can connect to wifi and read messages, “says Guillermo Bustamante, coordinator of the School of Communication and Digital Media at the University of the Pacific
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