Brazil allows Facebook director free

- SÃO PAULO The head of Facebook in Latin America after the intervention of the court again at liberty. Diego Dzodan was Tuesday arrested by the police of São Paulo as WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, refuses to transfer call data of persons suspected of drug trafficking to the police.

Dzodan was interrogated Tuesday because he had a court order to share the information would have been ignored. Both Facebook and WhatsApp denounced the arrest fierce. The court ordered Wednesday Dzodans release because he is a witness or a suspect in a criminal investigation, the US Fortune magazine writes on his website.

WhatsApp maintains that the police and the judiciary be granted indeed all possible cooperation, but just do not save the contents of all calls from its customers. Brazilian Public Prosecution argues that it only asked for the metadata.

Brazil blocked WhatsApp in December for some time because the messaging did not cooperate grant to a police investigation.