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Fines have been issued over and over. FB's president in Brazil has been arrested. What else do you suggest this judge (limited by what the law prescribes) should do?


Get a grip on reality and attain an understanding of how these communication systems work, then move on to other avenues of investigation


doesn't law there mandate retaining of all communications for service providers?

if that's the case, as hinted by other people, and whatsapp has been found in violation of that requirement, then blocking it seems the correct course of action (given the judge cannot change nor ignore the law)

the big IF is what the Brazilian communication law mandates to companies providing a service on their territory.


doesn't law there mandate retaining of all communications for service providers?

From what I can tell (I can read Portuguese, but I'm not versed in Brazilian law), that's only for ISPs.


ISPs have to maintain access records for an year. Application providers for six months [1]

http://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2011-2014/2014/lei/... (subsection III, article 15).


Access records, explicitly defined in that law as IP address plus date/time, not "all communications".




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