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A judge ordered Brazil's telecom providers in the country to block WhatsApp [qz.com] (again) in a dispute over access to chat records related to a drug investigation, but WhatsApp has argued that it cannot access the chats in an unencrypted form and therefore cannot provide the required records to the court.

Brazil has lifted the ban [reuters.com] after only 48 hours, and Interestly enough, Telegram has reported [twitter.com] to have a surge of 1 million users, hours after the ban taking effect.

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