CIPPIC v Abika.com: Part deux

The Candian Internet and Policy Public Interest Clinic has filed a second, revised complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, following the Assistant Commissioner's decision to not investigate the initial complaint because Abika.com is entirely located within the United States. More information is available from the CIPPIC website:

CIPPIC News - CIPPIC:

"On December 14, 2004, CIPPIC sent a formal complaint about Abika.com to the Federal Trade Commission in the United States, alleging violations of US law. We also responded to the Privacy Commissioner of Canada by way of a letter encouraging her to reconsider her staff's determination that they could not investigate companies located wholly in the USA. After discussions with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner, we filed another complaint against Abika.com under PIPEDA on December 20, 2004.

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For the background to this second complaint, see PIPEDA and Canadian Privacy Law: CIPPIC complaint raises a number of novel and interesting issues and PIPEDA and Canadian Privacy Law: Jurisdictional limitations on Canadian privacy law.