Brazil judge overturns WhatsApp suspension
SAO PAULO — A Brazilian judge struck down an earlier court ruling to suspend messaging service WhatsApp in Latin America’s biggest country for 72 hours, reactivating it on Tuesday, the day after it was shut down.
The ruling by Judge Ricardo Mucio Santana de Abreu Lima came just hours after another judge upheld an earlier order suspending WhatsApp’s services provided by Facebook.
A court official said the suspension was ordered because WhatsApp has repeatedly failed to turn over information about its users for an investigation into drug trafficking and organized crime.