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Federal court rejects OPC complaint that Facebook violated Canadian privacy law

News | April 19, 2023

In a decision several years in the making, a Federal Court judge has rejected an application from Canada’s federal privacy watchdog, which alleged that the social media giant had violated the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), Canada’s private sector privacy law, in its data harvesting in the incident known as the Cambridge Analytica scandal. 

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