The Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Daniel Therrien, made the following statement during a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa.
Thank you for coming. As you know, following a joint investigation with our B.C. counterpart, we have released today our findings into the Facebook matter involving Cambridge Analytica.
Despite its public acknowledgement of a “major breach of trust” in the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook disputes our investigation’s findings and refuses to implement recommendations to address deficiencies.
The stark contradiction between Facebook’s public promises to mend its ways on privacy and its refusal to address the serious problems we have identified – or even acknowledge that it broke the law – is extremely concerning.