The Sao Paulo police arrested the chief executive of Facebook in Latin America, which represents a new clash between the Brazilian authorities and the social networking company because of the refusal to provide police data on discussions held by members of a drug gang through the application.
police said yesterday that the Argentine Diego Dzodan was arrested by order of a judge in the northeastern state of Sergipe. Dzodan is accused of ignoring a court order in a secret investigation into organized crime and drug trafficking.
The decision by Judge Marcel Montalvao is given following the refusal of the company to provide information to users of their service WhatsApp messaging, application that Facebook bought in 2014. Facebook said the two companies operate independently, “so the decision to arrest an employee of another company is an extreme and unjustified measure.”
WhatsApp said in its own statement that it had “cooperated as much as we could given the architecture of our service.” According WhatsApp conversations users are not saved. “The police arrested someone for information that does not have,” he said.
But Monica Horta, police spokesman in Sergipe, said the arrest was made because neither Facebook or WhatsApp responded to a request for information initially issued four months ago. Two months ago, the judge Montalvao began fining the company with 12 thousand 700 dollars for each day that ignored the request, an amount that totaled $ 250,000 a day.
In the United States, the battle between Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Apple continued yesterday. FBI Director James Comey, compared to a hearing before the Judicial Committee of the House of Representatives impenetrable encryption devices Apple to a “vicious watchdog” that complicates its fight against terrorism, refusing to create technology to decrypt devices used by criminals. Apple’s legal counsel, Bruce Sewell responded that create an operating system so it would be “too dangerous” and would risk the security of hundreds of millions of users.
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