{"id":3955,"date":"2018-04-05T17:59:31","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=98ae7787558145a741804c0927d628d9"},"modified":"2018-04-05T17:59:31","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T21:59:31","slug":"federal-b-c-privacy-czars-team-up-to-investigate-facebook-and-aggregateiq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/05\/federal-b-c-privacy-czars-team-up-to-investigate-facebook-and-aggregateiq\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal, B.C. privacy czars team up to investigate Facebook and AggregateIQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The federal and British Columbia privacy commissioners are joining forces to investigate Facebook and Canadian political consultancy AggregateIQ &#8212; two firms at the centre of an international uproar over the unauthorized use of social-media data.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy involves allegations of the improper use of private Facebook information to help support major political wins, including Donald Trump&#8217;s 2016 U.S. presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The federal privacy watchdog launched an investigation last month to look into allegations about the unauthorized access of private Facebook data.<\/p>\n<p>It is now broadening its investigation by joining the B.C. privacy czar&#8217;s probe of Victoria-based firm AggregateIQ, which began late last year, to determine whether the company broke privacy laws.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook estimates 622,161 users in Canada had their data improperly shared with another political consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica, which is linked to AggregateIQ.<\/p>\n<p>Privacy commissioners in B.C., and the United Kingdom had previously opened investigations into AggregateIQ over its alleged role in the 2016 Brexit campaign, which resulted in Britain&#8217;s vote in favour of leaving the European Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OTTAWA &mdash; The federal and British Columbia privacy commissioners are joining forces to investigate Facebook and Canadian political consultancy AggregateIQ &mdash; two firms at the centre of an international uproar over the unauthorized use of social-media data. The controversy involves allegations of the improper use of private Facebook information to help support major political wins, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3955"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3956,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3955\/revisions\/3956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}