Canadian Group Files Facebook Privacy Complaint

bergkamp writes "A Canadian public policy group filed a complaint charging Facebook with 22 separate violations of a Canadian personal information protection law. The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic, based at the University of Ottawa, asked the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to investigate what it describes as Facebook's failure to inform members (PDF) how their personal information is disclosed to third parties for advertising and other commercial purposes. The complaint also alleges that Facebook has failed to obtain permission from members for disclosure of their personal information. The claim is that that Facebook violates the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronics Documents Act, which Philippa Lawson, the clinic's director, said is much stricter than US personal information protection laws."

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Re:That's nice, and all

[DaveV1.0]

I was unaware that FaceBook maintained an office in Canada.

Oh wait, they don't.

As a Canadian citizen with Canadian friends

[WillAffleckUW]

I can personally attest that it's not just Facebook that's violating my Constitutional RIGHTS.

And as a dual citizen living in the USA, under NAFTA, I never gave up my rights by living here either, under the treaty.

Which, as any educated American knows, supercede any Congressional laws, as treaties are a higher law.