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OPC investigating Facebook as gov’t responds to privacy concerns

News | 03/21/2018 6:20 pm EDT
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seen here at an announcement in January, was asked about data protection in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica revelations in question period Tuesday./ Hill Times photo by Andrew Meade.

OTTAWA Revelations over the weekend that Facebook Inc. data was used inappropriately for political purposes are now being formally investigated by the privacy commissioner, as the Liberal government maintains it is on top of the situation.  

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