The Privacy Commissioner of Canada has filed a notice of application in the federal court, calling for a declaration that Facebook contravened federal privacy law.
This comes after a joint investigation by the federal and British Columbia privacy watchdogs probed the tech giant's role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and found that the major social networking company's privacy practices had
The commissioner also wants the federal court to require Facebook to implement measures to obtain meaningful consent from all users; declare what internal changes have been made to comply with the federal private sector privacy law; and ordering Facebook to be prohibited from further collecting and disclosing personal information in ways that contravene PIPEDA; and forcing Facebook to publish a notice of any action it has taken to correct the practices that the commissioner's office has...
From the commissioner's perspective Facebook has "refused to implement recommendations to address the deficiencies identified."
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