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Wednesday, 21 March 2018 09:08
Some thoughts on Facebook's accountability in the Cambridge Analytica scandalWritten by Teresa Scassa
The recent scandal regarding the harvesting and use of the personal information of millions of Facebook users in order to direct content towards them aimed at influence their voting behavior raises some interesting questions about the robustness of our data protection frameworks. In this case, a UK-based professor collected personal information via an app, ostensibly for non-commercial research purposes. In doing so he was bound by terms of service with Facebook. The data collection was…
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Monday, 19 March 2018 07:24
Reforming Consent under PIPEDA (ETHI's Report on PIPEDA Reform - Part I)Written by Teresa Scassa
In February 2018 the Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics (ETHI) issued its report based on its hearings into the state of Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act. The Committee hearings were welcomed by many in Canada’s privacy community who felt that PIPEDA had become obsolete and unworkable as a means of protecting the personal information of Canadians in the hands of the private sector. The report, titled Towards Privacy…
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