Security News > 2020 > February > Facebook's Privacy Practices Targeted by Canadian Regulator

Canada's privacy commissioner is taking Facebook to court to try to force the social network to make changes to its privacy practices.

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada has filed an application asking a federal court to declare that Facebook violated the country's privacy law over the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

The OPC recommended changes to Facebook's privacy practices in a previous investigation around 2009, for example, but it says Facebook failed to implement them.

While Facebook said it prohibited the kind of sharing Kogan did, the regulator says that Facebook failed to ensure that app developers were complying with the social network's data-sharing policies.

Second, it wants orders that would force Facebook to obtain meaningful consent from users and make changes to its privacy practices to bring it into compliance with PIPEDA. Finally, the OPC wants the court to oversee ongoing monitoring and compliance by Facebook and require the social network to publish its course of action if the court mandates any specific changes.

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