By David Young ( September 25, 2024, 1:22 PM EDT) -- In Canada (Privacy Commissioner) v. Facebook, Inc., 2024 FCA 140, the Federal Court of Appeal overturned a Federal Court’s trial ruling denying the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s application to order Facebook (now Meta) to rectify the privacy practices that led to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. In a decision released April 13, 2023, the trial court dismissed the application, finding that the Commissioner failed to show that Facebook did not obtain meaningful consent from users for disclosure of their data to Cambridge Analytica....