( October 7, 2025, 23:31 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Facebook told Canada's Supreme Court that an appeals court erred when it ruled in 2024 that the social media company now known as Meta Platforms violated Canada's national privacy law. To make that ruling, Facebook said, Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal "did its own research, reweighed the evidence, made new and unsupported factual findings, raised new issues and arguments at its own instance, held that Facebook needed to take further measures without identifying any of those measures, and stretched the security safeguards requirement beyond its recognized limits," the company told the Supreme Court.See attached document....
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