When it comes to holding social media giants like Facebook to account, Canada’s privacy laws are a bad joke. The federal privacy commissioner, Daniel Therrien, admitted as much last week. Canadian law doesn’t give him the power to actually tell Facebook to do anything. privacy commissioner, identified one obvious remedy: give privacy regulators the power to do more than just scold those who flout our laws. In the area of privacy, in particular, our laws are now clearly inadequate.

Source: thestar April 29, 2019 21:32 UTC