Facebook Exec Jailed In Brazil Over WhatsApp Privacy Is Freed, Case Echoes Apple Vs FBI
Facebook senior executive Diego Dzodan was released from jail in Brazil Wednesday after being detained for defying a court order to release data from messaging app WhatsApp.
The detention, which lasted nearly 24 hours, was “unlawful coercion,” Judge Ruy Pinheiro ruled. “It seems to me that the extreme measure of imprisonment was hurried,” Pinheiro said in a statement, according to AFP.