Facebook高管在巴西被捕 Brazil police arrest Facebook executive over drugs probe into Wh

Brazilian police have arrested Facebook’s vice-president for Latin America after claims the social network refused to co-operate with an investigation into drug trafficking, marking a fresh tussle between US technology groups and law enforcement agencies.

在聲稱Facebook拒絕配合對一起毒品走私案的調查後，巴西警方逮捕了這家社交網絡公司分管拉美業務的副總裁，這標誌着美國科技公司和執法機構的又一起爭執。

The executive, Diego Dzodan, is being held in São Paulo for questioning after Facebook did not obey judicial orders to show police WhatsApp messages between suspected drug traffickers in the state of Sergipe, the state court said.

名爲迭戈•卓丹(Diego Dzodan)的這名高管在聖保羅被拘留訊問，此前塞爾希培州(Sergipe)法庭稱，Facebook拒不服從司法命令，爲警方提供該州境內的販毒嫌疑人之間的WhatsApp消息。

Facebook and WhatsApp reacted with dismay, saying the messaging service does not store users’ messages nor has the ability to intercept messages.

Facebook和WhatsApp對此反應驚愕，稱該消息服務並不儲存用戶消息，也沒有攔截消息的能力。

Silicon Valley companies are involved in clashes with legislators from Washington to West-minster over data security and users’ privacy.

從華盛頓到威斯敏斯特，圍繞數據安全和用戶隱私問題，硅谷企業捲入了與各國立法者的衝突。

The arrest came hours before a showdown between Apple and the FBI at a congressional hearing in Washington. That follows the order by a California judge last month that the iPhone maker help investigators unblock the mobile phone of one of the killers in December’s San Bernardino shooting. Facebook is among a group of tech companies expected to file a brief in support of Apple in that case this week.

這一逮捕發生之際，蘋果(Apple)和聯邦調查局(FBI)即將在華盛頓的一場國會聽證會上攤牌。此前，一名加利福尼亞州法官上月下達命令，要求這家iPhone製造商幫助解鎖去年12月聖貝納迪諾(San Bernardino)槍擊案的其中一名行兇者使用的iPhone。包括Facebook在內的一批科技公司預計將在本週提交書面陳詞，在該案中聲援蘋果。

According to the Brazilian police, the WhatsApp messages are indispensable as “proof in an investigation into drug trafficking”. Facebook, which bought the messaging application in 2014, was fined R$50,000 ($12,658) after it first ref-used the request. The fine was raised to R$1m, to no avail, the court said.

據巴西警方的說法，WhatsApp消息作爲“販毒調查中的證據”是必不可少的。在2014年收購該消息應用的Facebook在最初拒絕法庭命令後被罰款5萬巴西雷亞爾（合12658美元）。巴西法庭表示，罰款被提高至100萬巴西雷亞爾，但毫無作用。

Facebook was disappointed “with the extreme and disproportionate measure of having a Facebook executive escorted to a police station in connection with [a] case involving WhatsApp, which operates separately from Facebook”.

Facebook聲稱對“因爲一起涉及獨立於Facebook運營的WhatsApp的案件而押解一名Facebook高管到警局的極端和有失分寸的舉措”感到失望。

Amit Yoran, president of RSA Security, said as he opened the company’s cyber security conference in San Francisco that plans from law enforcement agencies to weaken encryption were “so misguided as to boggle the mind”.

RSA Security公司總裁阿米特•約然(Amit Yoran)在該公司於舊金山舉行的網絡安全會議上致開幕辭時表示，執法機構削弱加密的計劃“如此誤入歧途，令人匪夷所思”。