Time is up for Facebook to find a way to live up to Canada’s privacy law after this country’s privacy watchdog gave the social-networking website one month to close its “serious privacy gaps.” And if Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s privacy commissioner, isn’t satisfied with Facebook’s final response Monday, she has two weeks to take the California-based…
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OPC: Accusearch violates Canadian privacy law
When the 10th Circuit upheld a ruling against U.S.-based Accusearch over the sale of telephone records on its Abika.com web site (discussed here), that was not its only problem. On July 31, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada ruled that Accusearch also violates key provisions of the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents…
Facebook still violates Canada’s privacy laws?
The popular social networking website Facebook hasn’t always properly guarded the privacy rights of its users and could still be in violation of some provisions of Canadian law, the country’s privacy commissioner is expected to announce Thursday after a 13-month investigation. Jennifer Stoddart launched the probe last year after the Canadian Internet Policy and Public…