Supreme Court to decide if Facebook broke privacy law in disclosing users’ data to third-party apps

By Cristin Schmitz ( June 12, 2025, 5:11 PM EDT) -- The Supreme Court of Canada has agreed to hear Facebook’s appeal from a lower court’s ruling that the platform shared users’ personal information with third-party applications on its platform, without providing adequate privacy safeguards or obtaining meaningful consent to disclose users’ personal data — in breach of the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)....