Bloqueios Judiciais do WhatsApp no Brasil implicações jurídicas da suspensão do serviço

Abstract

Since the signing of the Internet Civil Registry in 2014, the WhatsApp mobile communications application, owned by the American company WhatsApp Inc., has been subject to repeated suspensions of its services in the Brazilian territory due to its constant inertia posture to court injunctions to provide information on suspicious investigations of software users suspected of committing crimes. The purpose of the authorities is to privilege the social order and the right to security, but the measures taken directly violate the guarantee of free expression and communication of society. The purpose of this study is to analyze and weigh principles, precepts and rights applicable in the specific case where the possibility of complying with the provisions of national laws by a foreign private law entity that within the parameters of the legality of its country has a a system considered inviolable for cryptography of messages so that a solution can be proposed that respects the free initiative, the national sovereignty and the whole society.