That’s a problem, said Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, since Canadian privacy law requires companies to obtain “meaningful consent” before collecting and sharing personal information. Sherman was testifying via teleconference on the second day of hearings by the House of Commons ethics committee into the Facebook scandal. Cambridge Analytica, a consulting firm, has been accused of harvesting personal details of 87 million Facebook users, and selling its analysis of that data to political campaigns in the U.S. and the U.K. Both Sherman and Chan spoke Thursday about the need to restore users’ trust in Facebook’s handling of personal data. “At no time has Facebook come close to meeting the threshold for registration as a lobbyist,” Chan said.

Source: thestar April 19, 2018 18:43 UTC