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| Brazilian police arrest Facebook's Latin America vice-president | Brazilian police arrest Facebook's Latin America vice-president |
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| Police in São Paulo say they have arrested the vice-president of Facebook in Latin America. | Police in São Paulo say they have arrested the vice-president of Facebook in Latin America. |
| In a statement released on Tuesday, the police said that Diego Dzodan, an Argentinian, was arrested on an order from a judge in the north-eastern state of Sergipe. Dzodan is accused of ignoring a judicial order in a secret investigation involving organized crime and drug trafficking. | In a statement released on Tuesday, the police said that Diego Dzodan, an Argentinian, was arrested on an order from a judge in the north-eastern state of Sergipe. Dzodan is accused of ignoring a judicial order in a secret investigation involving organized crime and drug trafficking. |
| In december, a Brazilian judge blocked the popular WhatsApp messaging service owned by Facebook because it refused to give user information to police. | |
| A spokesman for WhatsApp said the company had cooperated with investigators “to the full extent of our ability.” | |
| “We are disappointed that law enforcement took this extreme step. WhatsApp cannot provide information we do not have,” the spokesman said. | |
| A spokesman for Facebook decried the arrest, saying that the company had always been available to answer questions by the Brazilian authorities. | |
| “We are disappointed with the extreme and disproportionate measure of having a Facebook executive escorted to a police station in connection with case involving WhatsApp, which operates separately from Facebook,” the spokesman said. | |
| Brazilians are among the world’s most voracious users of social media such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter. About half of the country’s population uses WhatsApp. | Brazilians are among the world’s most voracious users of social media such as Facebook, WhatsApp and Twitter. About half of the country’s population uses WhatsApp. |