The federal and B.C. privacy watchdogs say Facebook's ineffective safeguards allowed unauthorized access to the information of millions of the social-media giant's users -- including data later used for political purposes.
Last Updated Thursday, April 25, 2019 10:58AM EDT
A long-awaited joint report from the two privacy commissioners found major shortcomings in Facebook's practices and called for stronger laws to protect Canadians. The complaint triggering the probe followed reports that Facebook had let an outside organization use an app to access users' personal information, and that some of the data was then shared with others. Recipients of the information included the firm Cambridge Analytica, which was involved in U.S. political campaigns.
Despite its public acknowledgment of a "major breach of trust" in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook disputes the report's findings and refuses to implement recommendations, the commissioners said in a news release.
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