Facebook Breached Canadian Privacy Laws, Watchdogs Say
- Commissioner blasts ‘unacceptable’ rejection of his findings
- Tech giant set aside $3 billion for possible fine in U.S. case
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Privacy watchdogs are accusing Facebook Inc. of “serious contraventions” of Canadian law in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
In a joint report released Thursday, the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Privacy Commissioner of British Columbia said the Menlo Park, California-based technology giant didn’t obtain proper consent from users to disclose their personal data, didn’t have adequate safeguards to protect that data and didn’t take proper responsibility for the information under its control.