Facebook-owned WhatsApp blocked three times in Brazil since December for failing to comply with a court order asking the company to access WhatsApp data under criminal investigation. On Wednesday, the public federal prosecutor in the Brazilian state of Amazonas said the court froze 38 Million real () of funds held in Facebook’s bank account. The prosecutor has said that the decision to freeze Facebook funds was made after the social media giant failed to comply. Since WhatsApp communications are end-to-end encrypted, even the company would not be able to access any message exchanged between users.
Source: https://thehackernews.com/2016/07/brazil-facebook-whatsapp.html