Facebook Data Breach Broke Canada’s Privacy Laws, Regulators Say

Data commissioner will take the social network to court

Officials from Canada have concluded that Facebook “committed serious contraventions of Canadian privacy laws” when the personal data of more than 87 million worldwide users (and 622,000 Canadians) was leaked and leveraged by Cambridge Analytica.

Canada’s Office of the Privacy Commissioner said today that it planned to take Facebook to federal court and seek an order to force the company to change its privacy practices. British Columbia separately may also take additional legal action.

The announcement is the latest legal blow for Facebook, which is already bracing for up to a $5

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