| Author: Elpais.com.co | AFP
Elpais.com.co | AFP
Millions of Brazilians awoke Thursday Whatsapp application without following the unprecedented decision of a judge in the state of Sao Paulo to suspend for 48 hours using the popular service messaging and telephony.
The decision has provoked outrage in Brazil, where millions of people exchange text messages, voice, video and photos for free with this installed application on their smartphones to avoid high prices mobile operators.
The ruling by Judge Sandra Regina Nostre Marques, of the city of Sao Bernardo do Campo (Brazilian municipality of the state of São Paulo) , sought enforcing an old order of justice for access to personal data of users in a case under summary.
“The decision was handed down in a criminal court process continues with stealth. That’s because Whatsapp not attend a judicial determination on 23 July 2015. On 7 August, the company was again notified, being fixed a fine in case of non-compliance, “he said in a statement the State of Sao Paulo.
As WhatsApp ignored the summons, the prosecution asked the judge blocking based on the civil law part of the Internet, and she agreed. The union of the mobile phone companies confirmed that was ordered and were “forced” to do it, he told the G1 website of Globo CEO Eduardo Levy.
statements Zuckerberg
“This is a sad day for Brazil,” said Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook chief and owner of WhatsApp. “I am astonished that our efforts to protect the private data of individuals culminate in such an extreme decision, taken by a single judge, who punishes all users of WhatsApp in Brazil,” but “we are working hard to reverse,” he added on his Facebook profile.
Zuckerberg advised to Brazilian users using WhatsApp Messenger Facebook meantime. At least one of the four main mobile operators in Brazil, Oi, appealed the ruling claiming damages suspension of service to all its customers.
“This hurts consumers and affecting millions of users of the night to day. It gives no time to make a communication to customers, they will think that the problem is with the operator, “Levy said.
The president of the National Telecommunications Agency (Anatel, state), Joao Rezende, not hide his discontent.
“The blockade is not the solution, because it is disproportionate and harmful to millions of users,” he told the newspaper O Globo. Thousands of Brazilians nevertheless managed to circumvent the ban by installing different applications that instantly enable VPN service messaging and telephony.
The blockade Telegram use increased, the messaging application Russian Pavel Durov, WhatsApp rival, who announced on Twitter have added 1.5 million new users in Brazil in a few hours.
Brazil, with 204 million inhabitants, had late last year with over 280 million mobile subscriptions, of which 6.7 million are 4G.
Three out of 10 Brazilians have a smart phone
The cell phone has become an extension of the hands of Brazilians, ‘selfies’ are taken incessantly and exchanged frantic messages on social networks.
Twitter messages quickly showered on the suspension, many believed impossible. In February, a judge in the state of Piauí (Northeast) had already ordered unsuccessfully to suspend the popular service.
“Now it was complicated,” he wrote one netizen, summing up the feelings of many before the two difficult days lie ahead without the service.
Some called down other applications such as the Telegram and some remembered the old Microsoft Messenger
Taking advantage of the situation, the mayor of Rio published. “48 hours without WhatsApp and the good news is that it does not need to know the traffic in Rio “.
#WhatsApp appeared among Trending Topics with #Telegram and #iMessage (Apple service).
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