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A new tax freezes the funds of Facebook by conflict by WhatsApp

Again the problems between Brazil and Facebook, as a result of the conflict with WhatsApp, become involved economic matters, since now a federal prosecutor for the State of Amazonas said that froze US$ 11.7 million from funds of the social network, after failure to comply with a court order to deliver data on users of the messaging service and that they are being investigated criminally.

The amount meets the fines that would apply it to the platform created by Mark Zuckerberg, after rejecting the coming defense of the company, in which pointed to that the subject was responsible for telephone services and Internet operating in United States and in other countries, so it would require international cooperation, according to Reuters.

Of step, the author of the order, the fiscal Alexandre Khabur, said that in Facebook have shown an important ignorance of them institutions Brazilian with regard to how operate where not is meet them orders that they made.

The case recalls the order which was for some time part of another court, which were frozen by the same concept more than USD$ 6 million.

Already at the time, both Facebook as on WhatsApp they have defended themselves from another point of view, pointing to that you can not deliver the required information, since the messages that circulate in the Messenger service are encrypted from end to end, so there is no way to access them.

However, uncertainty remains for users and in all Latin America as to whether there will be more crashes and finished by occur a problem as the fall caused last December.

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