Competition Bureau Canada announced Facebook agreed to pay a $9 million penalty to settle the bureau's investigations into the company's privacy practices. "While not at the scale of fines faced in the U.S. and elsewhere, the involvement of a nontraditional regulator for privacy sends several signals to Canadian and multinational organizations," writes nNovation Counsel Constantine Karbaliotis, CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CIPT, FIP. In this piece for Privacy Perspectives, Karbaliotis looks at what the settlement may mean for Canadian regulatory actions going forward.
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