Federal privacy commissioner to go to court in bid to force Facebook to correct its practices
OTTAWA — Facebook’s ineffective safeguards allowed unauthorized access to the information of millions of the social-media giant’s users — including data later used for political purposes, the federal and B.C. privacy watchdogs said Thursday.
The commissioners also expressed dismay that Facebook has rebuffed their findings and recommendations. The app, at one point known as “This is Your Digital Life,” encouraged users to complete a personality quiz but collected much more information about the people who installed the app as well as data about their Facebook friends.
Despite its public acknowledgment of a “major breach of trust” in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook disputes the report’s findings and refuses to implement recommendations, the commissioners said in a news release.
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