Sau Paulo: The Brazilian
government has filed a lawsuit against Twitter and its users in a bid to
stop publication of messages alerting drivers to police speed traps and
drunk-driving checkpoints.
The suit was filed in a federal court in the central-west state of Goias.
Brazil has
asked for the “immediate suspension of all accounts that give
information about the location of police radar,” the office of the
Attorney General of the Union, said in a statement.
The government wants “the definitive
closure of accounts revealing the date, time and place of police
checkpoints,” the statement said.
The lawsuit also orders Twitter to pay 500,000 reals ($290,000; £183,000) for each day that it does not comply with the request.
Twitter is not commenting on the case.
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