Privacy commissioner files notice of application to proclaim the social media network wasn’t diligent about obtaining consent
Canada’s privacy commissioner is escalating a battle with Facebook Inc. by asking a court to declare the social media network broke federal privacy law and by seeking to force the firm to implement new personal-data practices.
Facebook says there is “no evidence” Canadian user data was shared with Cambridge Analytica, but the privacy commissioner’s office says its probe found “major shortcomings” in the company’s privacy practices. The commissioner’s office had also previously warned it could take the matter to court, and said Facebook had shunned its recommendations.
However, a spokesperson for Facebook fired back in a statement that the privacy office “is choosing to pursue legal action despite our many attempts to work with them and offer measures that would go above and beyond what other companies do, and despite the fact that there is no evidence that Canadian user data was shared with Cambridge Analytica.”
Canada’s privacy commissioner launched an investigation in March 2018, the findings of which were released in April 2019 and disputed by Facebook.
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