Brazilian police arrested the vice
president of Facebook for Latin America on Tuesday after the social
media giant refused access to data the authorities said was important to
a criminal probe.
Diego Dzodan was in detention in Sao
Paulo after his arrest following “repeated non-compliance with court
orders” to share Facebook data requested in a drug trafficking case,
federal police said.
“This information was required to
produce evidence to be used in an organized crime and drug trafficking
investigation,” the police statement said. The probe, police said, is
being conducted in-camera, meaning that it is held in court, but in
secret, with no public allowed.
Brazilian media reported that the authorities are specifically targeting Facebook’s popular mobile phone chat tool, WhatsApp.
Four months ago, a judge asked for the
names of two users of a WhatsApp account where information about
narcotics was being exchanged, and Facebook refused, incurring daily
fines, O Globo website reported.
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