The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada published in September 2017 a Report on Consent that provides detailed comments and guidance
regarding meaningful consent in the digital environment, and recommends the federal government amend relevant parts of PIPEDA.
Most notably,
regarding third - party applications, the Assistant Commissioner determined that Facebook did not have adequate safeguards in place to prevent unauthorized access by application developers to users» personal information, and furthermore was not doing enough to ensure that
meaningful consent was obtained from individuals for the disclosure of their personal information to application developers.