Popular social networking site Facebook is breaching Canadian law by holding on to users' personal information indefinitely, a report has concluded.
An investigation by Canada's privacy commission found the US-based website also gave "confusing or incomplete" information to subscribers. Canadian Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart laid out the findings of the report at a news conference in Ottawa.
Facebook's policy of holding on to subscribers' personal information, even after their accounts had been deactivated, was one area that breached Canada's privacy laws, she said
More than 200 million people actively use Facebook.They include about 12 million in Canada, more than one in three of the population
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