Brazilian court freezes $6m of Facebook's money during WhatsApp encryption case
by Nicky Woolf and agencies from Technology | The Guardian on (#1K12A)
The funds were blocked after the popular messaging service reportedly defied repeated orders to turn over messages sought in a drug case
A court in Brazil on Thursday blocked 19.5m reals ($6.07m) of Facebook's money after its WhatsApp messaging service failed to turn over messages sought in a drugs case - despite the fact that the company has no access to its users' messages.
Brazil's federal police said WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook , has defied repeated orders to turn over messages sent and received by suspected members of an international cocaine smuggling ring that has been under investigation since January.
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