01-03-2016 23:40 via uk.news.yahoo.com

Facebook executive jailed in Brazil as court seeks WhatsApp data

By Brad Haynes SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian police arrested a senior Facebook Inc executive on Tuesday as a dispute escalated over a court's demand that the company provide data from its WhatsApp messaging service to help in a secretive drug-trafficking investigation. Court officials in Sergipe state confirmed that a judge had ordered the jailing of Facebook Vice President for Latin America Diego Dzodan. Law enforcement officials withheld further information about the nature of their request
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