International Law

Facebook now anticipating and responding to privacy questions in Canada

CTV News is reporting that when Facebook launched their location-based service "Places" in Canada, the company did more than just have a teleconference with reporters to gush about how cool it is. Much of the call was spent talking about privacy, which is key to managing the inevitable privacy questions that any such product will raise in Canada. That's simply the new reality and good on Facebook for anticipating the questions and dealing with them up front. See: CTV News | Facebook tries to head privacy critics off at the pass.

Full post as published by The Canadian Privacy Law Blog on September 27, 2010 (boomark / email).