Arrested a Facebook manager in Brazil for protecting WhatsApp messages
The WhatsApp soap opera in Brazil continues its course, and now claims the vice president as a victim Facebook commercial in Latin America, Diego Dzodan, who has been arrested by the police in this same country. Apparently the refusal of this person in charge of Facebook to collaborate with the Brazilian authorities in a case of investigation of a drug cartel has led to his arrest.
According to the newspaper The Guardian, Dzodan has been arrested by the police at the airport of Garulhos for refusing to comply with the court order requesting access to the WhatsApp messages of several narcos In this way, by ignoring the different requests by the authorities, they have increased the value of the fine accumulated by Dzodan until his arrest has been requested .
Apparently, the court has requested on several occasions access to information from WhatsApp messages of a drug cartel that is under judicial investigation. However, Facebook cannot collaborate by ensuring not to have such data, sinceWhatsApp does not store information from your chats, as is the case with Facebook Similarly, the police has executed the order and arrested the commercial vice president of Facebook in Latin America.
In light of this situation, a WhatsApp spokesperson has declared to the English newspaper that they are “ disappointed at the extreme performance of the police” “WhatsApp cannot offer information that we do not have”, adds the same source .
Brazilian authorities have therefore confused the operation of Facebook, which does keep information on messages for months, with that ofWhatsApp And, although this second one was bought by that one in 2014, its operation continues to be independiente, and it does not seem to invest its resources in spying on or keeping safe the information that its users transmit through chats. In fact, those responsible confirm the existence of an protection from user to user (end-to-end) that prevents third-party access to this information.
This is not the first problem of WhatsApp in Brazil In December last year, its population lost service for several hours due to another court decision. In that case, once again, a criminal investigation sought to access the data of the conversations of a drug cartel, encountering the same problem. Faced with this situation, the Internet operators complied with the judge's order, leaving the entire country without messages in view of the alleged refusal of WhatsApp and Facebook to collaborate.
Apparently, the lack of knowledge about the operation of Facebook and WhatsApp within the Brazilian justice is causing serious problems both for the population as well as now the workers of Facebook in Latin America We will have to wait and see if the judges decide to lift the order and return freedom to Dzodan in the next few hours upon understanding that Facebook cannot give away information it does not ownBrazil seems to continue defending its authority, even more so since the US espionage scandal in 2013 confirmed wiretapping of President Dilma Rouseff's phones
Update: Within 24 hours of the arrest of the head of Facebook in Latin America, a Brazilian judge has issued the order for his release for illegal coercion Thus, it is understood that this gesture on the part of the Brazilian authorities is a pulse with Facebook to try to achieve its goals: access the data of the conversations of WhatsApp However, the situation remains the same as 24 hours ago, since WhatsApp still does not store user data, Therefore, it cannot offer any information to the Brazilian federal police, who investigate drug cases in which the chats of WhatsApp would be key to their resolution.
