Facebook Faces the Canadian Privacy Commissioner

Posted by timothy on Sunday August 16, 2009 @03:20PM from the soory-aboot-that-yah dept.

dakohli writes "Canwest's Sarah Schmidt writes that Facebook has until Monday to find a way to fix its 'serious privacy gaps.' And if the Canadian Privacy Commissioner isn't happy with the Web Company's response, then she has two weeks to push it to the Canadian Federal Court in Ottawa. 'A spokeswoman for the commission said it's premature to say whether the feud will end up in court. This would be an international first for Facebook, which has grown to more than 200 million users since its launch in 2004.'"

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Re:Just add to the EULA... by thirty-seven · 2009-08-16 16:07 · Score: 5, Informative

As far as Facebook users should be concerned, if the government of Canada thinks there are privacy violations, there are...
The Privacy Commissioner is an officer of parliament (who reports directly to the Senate and the House of Commons), not an official of the Government of Canada.

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