RBC faces Canadian privacy investigation over Facebook access


FILE PHOTO: A Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) logo is seen on Bay Street in the heart of the financial district in Toronto, January 22, 2015. REUTERS/Mark Blinch/File Photo/File Photo

Canada’s privacy commissioner is looking into complaints about whether Facebook Inc gave Royal Bank of Canada access to private information of users of the social media giant. 

The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada is investigating complaints from individuals over Royal Bank’s “alleged role in receiving information from Facebook”, Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien said in Ottawa last week in a Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics. 

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