Brazil Police Is Treating The Facebook Executive With Respect

Facebook will continue with its expansion in Brazil amid detention of of executive.

An executive belonging to Facebook Inc. reportedly spent almost 24 hours in a jail in Brazil this week. As per him, the police authorities treated him with immense respect and the incident will not hamper the company’s expansion in the Brazilian market whatsoever.

The Vice President of Facebook, Mr. Diego Dzogan situated in Sao Paulo was arrested by the police on Tuesday since a conflict aroused where the law enforcement agency demanded the data out of WhatsApp messaging service which contains in encrypted data to be used to solve a sensitive drug trafficking case.

The executive was released a day after since the appeal judged decided to overturn the court orders of taking him into custody.

“I was treated with a lot of respect,” Dzodan stated on Saturday during a conference regarding the business trends in Latin America. The event was organized by students belonging to the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

As per the individual, the social media giant does not have any access over the data that is travelling on its secure messaging platform, WhatsApp. Thus, it is not possible for the company to comply to the request made by the Brazilian officials.

“The way that information is encrypted from one cell phone to another, there is no information stored that could be handed over to authorities,” he stated.

This comments were ascertained during a question and answer session that spanned for almost half an hour talking about the company’s approach on innovation. He also mentioned that the detention will not have any impact on the company’s plan for the Brazilian market. They will continue to expand their services in the region on the same pace.

“We are extremely committed to Brazil. Brazil is a huge market that really likes Facebook,” he claimed. “We are very focused on the long term.”

The law enforcement agencies in Brazil’s officials have mentioned little about their need for data from the social media giant’s messaging service which acquired back in 2014. They have also mentioned that they are willing to compromise on the present criminal investigation.

According to a spokesman belonging to the tech giant mentioned on Wednesday that the company was happy that Mr. Dzodan has been released. They also expressed his disregard on the detention considering it to be “an extreme, disproportionate measure.”

The incident took place during a time when tech based companies are dealing with immense pressures from regulatory bodies all over the globe. The idea that these authorities wish to nurture is the censorship of data along with the ability to eavesdrop on the user.

Facebook is not the only company who has been dealing with this problem lately but the tech behemoth Apple Inc. and the United States Law Enforcement agencies are also dealing with a conflict where the authorities are demanding the company to unlock the user’s iPhone to which the latter is not agreeing.