The Privacy Commissioner of Canada plans to take Facebook to court to seek an order to force the company to correct its privacy practices. This follows an investigation showing the company violated Canadian privacy law in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
Facebook allowed unauthorised access to personal data, with no meaningful consent from the user, and failed to regulate the apps on its platform, the investigation found. Despite its public acknowledgement of a “major breach of trust” in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook disputes the investigation findings of the Canadian Privacy Commissioner and the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia. The company also refuses to implement recommendations to address deficiencies, the regulator said in a statement.
As a result, the Canadian watchdog will need to take the company to court in order to force any change in its practices. It also called for a reform of Canadian law that would allow it to impose penalties and binding orders for violations of privacy law and perform tighter controls of company adherence to privacy law.
