Brazil fines WhatsApp for not exposing drug mafia

While the RTI activists in India have been charging mass messaging systems such as WhatsApp and Telegram with posing a danger to the country's security, Brazil went out of the way to act against WhatsApp which failed to reveal the accounts that indulged in international drug-trafficking. Brazil gave several chances to WhatsApp to reveal the accounts, but the mass message system either remained indifferent or ignored the appeals. In the wake of the WhatsApp defiance attitude, The Brazilian government froze $ 6.07 million of the messaging system. With each court notice sent once in a fortnight, the amount of penalties on WhatsApp increased three times until the figure of fine was reached. The Federal Court in Londrina, Brazil, had argued that WhatsApp had been ignoring the court's ruling to grant police access to conversations of the suspected ring leaders of drug smugglers hailing from Brazil, Bolivia, Columbia and Spain. WhatsApp rolls out end-to-end encryption for its estimated billion users. Indian social activists have also such fears as Brazilians, but the authorities have not taken cognizance of the appeals.