WhatsApp Goes Through Judicial Revolving Door in Brazil…

A Brazilian court on Tuesday overturned a different court’s Monday order that blocked WhatsApp, the messaging site owned by Facebook, amid a criminal investigation into drug trafficking in the state of Sergipe.

The earlier judicial demand that WhatsApp provide data considered critical to the investigation came soon after a ramp-up in the level of encryption built into the app. Five major Internet service providers faced hefty fines of about US$142,000 daily if they failed to comply with the order.

The ban resulted in more than 100 million people temporarily losing access to the service.More