Facebook Exec Arrested In Brazil For Company’s Non-Compliance

A Facebook vice president was taken into custody in Brazil after the company failed to hand over information from its WhatsApp messaging service which police had requested as part of a drug trafficking investigation. Diego Dzodan was put into “preventative prison” when Facebook “repeatedly [failed] to comply with judicial orders,” according to a statement. “The information was required to be utilized in an investigation of organized crime and drug trafficking.” A few months ago, another judge ordered a temporary shutdown of WhatsApp in a similar case, but an appeals court overturned the order. Facebook said it was “disappointed with the extreme and disproportionate measure of having a Facebook executive escorted to a police station in connection with a case involving WhatsApp.”