Facebook Bows to Canada Over Privacy Concerns

Facebook has been in hot water with Canada over how it protects user data, and the country’s privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, is set to announce at a news conference tomorrow that the company plans to comply with the government’s privacy concerns. Last month, Stoddart said that the social network breached Canada’s privacy law by holding onto users’ information even after they deactivated their accounts. She also cited concerns with Facebook’s default privacy settings and asked whether the company shares user data with third-party application developers…