Is your country going to ban Whatsapp as well ? | WhatsApp burned for hours in Brazil !

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Whatsapp Messenger has formed an important part of our daily lives. Sending text, files, images and even videos and instant voice recordings with such great ease for free is a gift given to us by it's developers.

Now Whatsapp , like every other messenger is a base of communication. The modern era has taken away our privacy as organizations such as NSA track down each and every one of our messages to look for terrorist organizations such as ISIS. Whatsapp is tracked down in the same way as well.

 Let's consider the fact that Whatsapp  wants to secure our privacy. In the process, countries may stop it's service in their area, in case Whatsapp tried to protect your privacy by not providing your personal data to them. In such a case , YOUR COUNTRY MAY BAN IT AS WELL !

Brazilian court suspended the use of WhatsApp for few hours after the Judge's claim over the company’s failure to provide data from WhatsApp which was requested by the Authority to help in criminal investigations.

The court ordered the mobile carriers in the country to block the App which was being used by many people in the country.

This is the third time for the Brazilian authority to burn the use of WhatsApp in the country. The App was burned December last year for 48 hours (after WhatsApp failed to respond to two court orders), and  this year again for similar reasons.

The authority was held in for questioning  the Facebook vice president , following the company’s failure to provide WhatsApp data requested by the Authority in connection with criminal investigation for drug trafficking.

The CEO and WhatsApp cofounder Mr. Jan Koum has responded to the news as “shocking” in his Facebook post. 


“We're working to get WhatsApp back online in Brazil. It's shocking that less than two months after Brazilian people and lawmakers loudly rejected blocks of services like WhatsApp, history is repeating itself. As before, millions of people are cut off from friends, loved ones, customers, and colleagues today, simply because we are being asked for information we don't have.” Said Koum in his post.

Hours later the President of the Supreme Federal Court of Brazil, Enrique Ricardo Lewandowski suspended the burn, which called for immediate restore of the App service. And according to him, the suspension of the service apparently violates the fundamental precept of freedom of expression and communication.

WhatsApp has recently introduced the end to end data encryption in which the message sent through WhatsApp can only be seen by the sender and the intended receiver, reducing the vulnerability of user's data into the hand of law enforcing organs or criminals.

 So After reading all this news , do you think that Whatsapp may get banned in your country as well? How would you react ? What would you loose ? 

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