Nathaniel Erskine-Smith at the Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics Committee

On May 7th, 2019. See this statement in context.

May 7th, 2019 / 4:10 p.m.

Liberal

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith Liberal Beaches—East York, ON

We have the FTC talking about fining Facebook over breaches of privacy, and breach of a previous agreement with the FTC. Facebook has potentially set aside, ready to pay, $5 billion.

We have the U.K. Information Commissioner levying a 500,000-pound fine. She said, “We consider these contraventions to be so serious, we imposed the maximum penalty under the previous legislation. The fine would inevitably have been significantly higher under the GDPR.” You are able to levy a fine in the amount of—

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