FACEBOOK in Canadian Hot Water!

[mis_chiff]

Seems they have breached the privacy rules.....

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner's report found that Facebook continues to breach PIPEDA in four ways and it made recommendations to correct the problem.

Facebook breaches Canadian privacy law: commissioner | Sympatico / MSN Tech & Gadgets

 

[Bestone]

Breach of privacy is illegal act so the commissioner should take some preventive measure to keep
the privacy with them.and could you tell me the four ways?

 

[RTM]

Breach of privacy is illegal act so the commissioner should take some preventive measure to keep
the privacy with them.and could you tell me the four ways?

The 4 ways are mentioned in the article referenced by Miss_Chiff... here's an excerpt"

- Facebook doesn't have enough safeguards to prevent 950,000 third-party developers around the world from getting unauthorized access to users' personal information...

- Facebook keeps information from accounts deactivated by users indefinitely....

- Facebook keeps the profiles of deceased users for "memorial purposes" but does not make this clear...

- Facebook allows users to provide personal information about non-users without their consent...

The OPC analysis includes recommendations which are also mentioned in the article.

You're right, I think that FBOOK needs to take these "concerns" seriously and their response will no doubt set a precedent for how Facebook manages privacy issues on their site in general; and most particularly in countries that have privacy laws similar to those in place in Canada.

Rob

 

[labrocca]

Is Facebook in Canada? If not then it's not required to follow their laws.

 

[RTM]

Is Facebook in Canada? If not then it's not required to follow their laws.

Facebook is based in Palo Alto, but it does do business in Canada and as such should be (depending on how once interprets recent legal precedent cases) subject to the laws in Canada.

They haven't released official numbers themselves, but 12,000,000 Canadian Facebook members is generally the number we see. (That's out of a total of about 250M Facebook members - give or take a million or so members, day-to-day - worldwide)...

A quote from Chris Kelly (CPO at FBOOK):

"We're going to continue the dialogue," Chris Kelly, chief privacy officer for Facebook, said in a phone interview from Facebook's headquarters in California. "We have every confidence that we'll come to an acceptable conclusion."

Source: The Toronto Star (July 17, 2009)