Court in Brazil blocks Facebook money in WhatsApp scandal
A court in Brazil has frozen 19.5 million reals ($6.07m) of Facebook's funds in a dispute with secure messaging service WhatsApp over a criminal case.
The federal police say Facebook, which owns WhatsApp, has refused to share the contents of messages sent by suspected drug smugglers.
They need the data to connect those captured with others based around the world.
Facebook declined to comment.
Read more at BBC.
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