Facebook is not on the verge of being sued by Canada Privacy Comm...

personal data violated Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (WID July 17 p2). Canadian media reported the company had passed Stoddart’s Monday deadline to change its policies to more closely supervise third-party developers, get permission from people tagged in photos before they're posted and let users permanently delete personal data from Facebook from their settings page, among other demands. Stoddart has 15 days to decide whether to file suit against Facebook, but the parties are still in negotiations, the Facebook spokesman said. The Monday deadline “was never for implementing the changes,” but simply to make proposals, he said. The company previewed its proposals to Stoddart’s office last week and was scheduled to formally submit them Monday afternoon, though they won’t be made public because of the back-and-forth nature of the talks, he said. A spokeswoman for Stoddart’s office confirmed the timeline. It has 45 days to go to court to challenge violations, and gave Facebook 30 days to respond. “We continue to have positive discussions with Facebook,” she said. “We are hopeful that Facebook has responded to the concerns we raised in our investigation report, but we're not in a position to determine that at this time -- we need to review their actions thoroughly.”