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Canadian privacy commissioner claims against Facebook reach nation's top court

By Mike Swift ( March 19, 2026, 21:30 GMT | Insight) -- Six years after the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada sued Facebook on claims that the social media company's data sharing practices with apps prior to 2015 violated the nation's national privacy law and led to the Cambridge Analytica privacy scandal, the case finally reached the Supreme Court of Canada Thursday. During about three hours of oral argument, Facebook's lawyer was often on the defensive as the justices questioned whether Facebook's policies for platform apps allowed Canadians to give meaningful consent for apps to access their data as required by Canada's national privacy law.Facebook’s lawyer was repeatedly on the defensive before the Supreme Court of Canada Thursday in the company’s challenge to an appeals court win by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada over the company’s Cambridge Analytica breach....

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