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                          Brazil Blocks WhatsApp Again

   by VOA News

   For the third time in a year, Brazil has banned access to the popular
   messaging app, WhatsApp.

   The service was suspended Tuesday by a judge because the company, which
   is owned by Facebook, has not handed authorities user data as a part of
   a police investigation.

   "WhatsApp is blocked across the whole national territory," a spokesman
   for a court in Rio de Janeiro told AFP.

   Based on previous suspensions, WhatsApp will likely be available again
   within days.

   WhatsApp was blocked most recently in May and before that in December
   of 2015.

   At the time, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said it was "a sad day
   for Brazil."

   The free app is very popular in Brazil and is estimated to be installed
   in over 90 percent of cell phones there. That translates to roughly 100
   million phones.
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