Facebook's Privacy Practices Subject Of New Complaint

Canadian law students are causing trouble for a certain social network.  The University of Ottawa-based Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) has filed a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner over Facebook's practices.

Canada's privacy commissioner can take as much as a year to investigate the complaint.  At that point, the commissioner is only able to make recommendations, and not create laws or collect fines, so the development is hardly of the same importance as, say, Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube.

Facebook's taking the incident seriously, though.  A representative spoke to the

Ah, well.  As a point of interest, the complaint mentioned that, after the U.S. and the U.K., Facebook finds most of its users in Canada.