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Interesting when you confront this with those decisions of Brazilian courts of suspending /blocking WhatsApp during some days. Because the response, from the co

Interesting when you confront this with those decisions of Brazilian courts of suspending /blocking WhatsApp during some days. Because the response, from the court order, is always "Facebook and WhatsApp are separeted companies, you are asking Facebook (that has a office in Brazil) to answer for WhatsApp (that hasn't), Facebook doesn't have access to any meta-data from WhatsApp (including which user talked to another one)".

thr0waway1239 10y ago
If this is true, then Facebook might find itself in quite some bother now or in the future. Can you provide a reference?
- dhimes 10y ago
  For some previous discussions here: duckduckgo whatsapp facebook brazil !hn
  - ufo 10y ago
    why not just provide the URL directly? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whatsapp%20facebook%20brazil https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whatsapp%20facebook%20brazil
    - dhimes 10y ago
      Well, I like duckduckgo for one and was showing them some love. Especially appropriate in this thread.
- flaviojuvenal 10y ago
  Here is the reference. It's the text of one of judicial decisions that blocked Whatsapp in Brazil (translated to English): https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftecnologia.uol.com.br%2Fnoticias%2Fredacao%2F2016%2F07%2F19%2Fveja-o-texto-completo-da-decisao-que-mandar-bloquear-o-whatsapp.htm https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u... The relevant part is: "the other company, based in the country, has no "powers" on the company of your own conglomerate". Note: in the same paragraph it says "a company does not have established in Germany". It's a Translator bug. The correct is: "one company is not established in the country". Original text is at: http://tecnologia.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2016/07/19/veja-o-texto-completo-da-decisao-que-mandar-bloquear-o-whatsapp.htm http://tecnologia.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2016/07/19/vej...

thr0waway1239 10y ago

If this is true, then Facebook might find itself in quite some bother now or in the future. Can you provide a reference?

dhimes 10y ago
For some previous discussions here: duckduckgo whatsapp facebook brazil !hn
- ufo 10y ago
  why not just provide the URL directly? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whatsapp%20facebook%20brazil https://hn.algolia.com/?query=whatsapp%20facebook%20brazil
  - dhimes 10y ago
    Well, I like duckduckgo for one and was showing them some love. Especially appropriate in this thread.
flaviojuvenal 10y ago
Here is the reference. It's the text of one of judicial decisions that blocked Whatsapp in Brazil (translated to English): https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftecnologia.uol.com.br%2Fnoticias%2Fredacao%2F2016%2F07%2F19%2Fveja-o-texto-completo-da-decisao-que-mandar-bloquear-o-whatsapp.htm https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=auto&tl=en&u... The relevant part is: "the other company, based in the country, has no "powers" on the company of your own conglomerate". Note: in the same paragraph it says "a company does not have established in Germany". It's a Translator bug. The correct is: "one company is not established in the country". Original text is at: http://tecnologia.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2016/07/19/veja-o-texto-completo-da-decisao-que-mandar-bloquear-o-whatsapp.htm http://tecnologia.uol.com.br/noticias/redacao/2016/07/19/vej...