There is no data. WhatsApp just passes the encrypted communication from your phone to another phone and that's it. It doesn't hold it. The first couple times t

There is no data. WhatsApp just passes the encrypted communication from your phone to another phone and that's it. It doesn't hold it. The first couple times that WhatsApp was blocked in Brazil, the reason was that they denied access to certain logs. This time, they explicitly mention they want encryption to be turned off and demand WhatsApp to reply to Brazilian requests in Brazilian terms. The problem is that WhatsApp, as stated before, do not operate in Brazil as has exactly zero obligation to answer Brazilians court orders. Now it's time for the country to discuss, as are many other places in the world, where does the right to investigate crimes by prying into someone or some groups communications begins and where does the right to privacy of the population ends. The Supreme Court judge who suspended the block argued that it violated basic rights of the people, which is good, but already there is talk of a political project to establish what those in power all over the world want: access to communications and access to the ability to punish those who don't obey, the later in the form of an obligation for the companies involved to have an arm in Brazil.