Facebook pays $6.8M to settle Canadian privacy violations
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Aaron Nicodemus2020-05-21T18:30:00
Facebook will pay $6.8 million in fines and penalties to settle claims it shared private information regarding 24 million Canadian customers with third parties over six years, despite promising users it was not doing so.
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