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Canada Fines Facebook Over Data-Privacy Claims

By  |  May 19, 2020

Canada’s competition watchdog said on Tuesday it had fined Facebook Inc $9 million after an investigation found the social network made “misleading” claims about personal information of Canadians on Facebook and Messenger, reported Yahoo Finance. 

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    The Competition Bureau said it found that Facebook’s privacy claims were not consistent with the way it shared personal data of users with some third-party developers.

    “Although we do not agree with the Commissioner’s conclusions, we are resolving this matter by entering into a consent agreement and not contesting the conclusions for the purposes of this agreement,” a Facebook spokesperson said.

    The world’s largest social network has faced broad criticism from lawmakers and regulators over its privacy practices. It agreed to pay a record $5 billion fine last year to settle a US Federal Trade Commission data privacy probe.

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