RIO DE JANEIRO: The hugely popular WhatsApp smartphone messaging service was briefly blocked by a Brazilian court on July 19 for the third time in less than a year after failing to surrender user data to police.
The latest drama ended after the Supreme Court president, Ricardo Lewandowski, accepted an appeal against a lower court order that shut down the service nearly four hours earlier. It was not clear how quickly WhatsApp would go back on line.
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