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Canada: Issued ruling in investigation into Facebook for alleged privacy violations

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Issued ruling in investigation into Facebook for alleged privacy violations

On 25 April 2019, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) and Office of the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia closed a joint investigation into Facebook's data protection practices in connection with the access…

Scope

Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Data protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: user-generated content
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
data protection authority

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2019-04-25
in force

On 25 April 2019, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) and Office of the Informat…

2023-04-13
in force

On 13 April 2023, the Federal Court of Canada issued its judgment dismissing the Office of the Priv…

2023-05-12
under appeal

On 12 May 2023, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) appealed the dismissal by th…

2024-09-10
in force

On 10 September 2024, the Federal Court of Appeal issued a decision in the Privacy Commissioner’s l…

2024-11-08
under appeal

On 8 November 2024, Facebook filed an appeal against the ruling issued by the Federal Court of Appe…

2025-06-12
under investigation

On 12 June 2025, the Canadian Supreme Court accepted an appeal from Facebook, which challenged the …