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Facebook must satisfy Canada’s privacy commissioner
OTTAWA — Time is up for Facebook to find a way to live up to Canada’s privacy law after this country’s privacy watchdog gave the social-networking website one month to close its “serious privacy gaps.”
And if Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s privacy commissioner, isn’t satisfied with Facebook’s final response Monday, she has two weeks to take the California-based company to Federal Court in Ottawa to try and get a court order requiring it to change its business practices to comply with Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, the country’s private-sector privacy law.
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.
Stoddart will spend the intervening days reviewing Facebook’s response, said spokeswoman Anne-Marie Hayden.
“The next step now is to review what steps they’re taking, but we remain quite hopeful and it’s going very well,” she said.
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