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Facebook prods Canada's Supreme Court to consider Cambridge Analytica case

By Mike Swift ( February 21, 2025, 22:12 GMT | Comment) -- Five months after the Federal Court of Appeal said that the company now known as Meta Platforms violated the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, or PIPEDA, Facebook and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada are battling over the company's bid to have the Supreme Court of Canada review the appeal court's decision. A lawyer opining on behalf of Facebook told the top court that the flawed appeals court decision would "have cascading effects across all privacy laws in Canada.” Facebook and the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada are battling over whether the nation’s top court should review an appeal court decision that found the social media giant’s app developer data-sharing policy violated Canada’s commercial privacy law....

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