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Re:WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide T... by robbiemitchell on Monday May 02, 2016 @06:46PM (#11616366)
It's not about providing a backdoor, it's about retroactively having recorded all conversations demanded by a judge.
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Re:WhatsApp, Used by 100M Brazilians, Shut Down Nationwide T... by rglullis on Monday May 02, 2016 @07:04PM (#11616472)
Like I said, the Brazilian code about Internet communications (Marco Civil) establishes that all companies must retain all data for one year.

This was passed in 2014, so the main allegation from the Brazilian courts is that Whatsapp should have this data, anyway. There is nothing "retroactive" there.

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