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ARTICLE · 26 FEBRUARY 2020

Application By Privacy Commissioner To Shed Light On Judicial Enforcement Of PIPEDA

Recent legal action by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada will shed light on the Federal Court's willingness to enforce and monitor compliance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act.

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Recent legal action by the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) will shed light on the Federal Court's willingness to enforce and monitor compliance with the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA). On February 6, the OPC filed a notice of application (the Application) in the Federal Court seeking a declaration that Facebook has contravened PIPEDA and various orders that would compel Facebook to bring itself into compliance. 1 Organizations governed by PIPEDA should keep a close eye on the Court's inquiry as well as any eventual order enforcing compliance with the Act.

Background

In March 2018, in response to a complaint, the OPC commenced a joint investigation of Facebook's privacy practices with the Information and Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia. In particular, the investigation concerned Facebook disclosing its users' personal information to a third party application known as "thisisyourdigitallife", which

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