Compared with content on Facebook, Twitter and other social networks that is openly shared with other users, however, data sent by WhatsApp and similar messaging services is encrypted. Spokesmen for Facebook and Twitter declined to comment on specifics of the case. The judge's comment about cooperation by the social media companies comes amid growing debate in Brazil and around the world about privacy issues and law enforcement. The data is scrambled between users and therefore, according to those companies, not something even they can access. In the Fantastico interview, the judge said "there is no anonymity for those sorts of activities on the Internet."

Source: Standard Digital July 25, 2016 02:15 UTC