Posted AT 5:00 AM EDT on 13/05/08
Privacy Commissioner comes to Moscoe's aid
The plight of Toronto Councillor Howard Moscoe, who complained to social networking website Facebook last week that someone had created a phony page in his name, attracted some high-profile help.
Ontario Information and Privacy Commissioner Ann Cavoukian wrote yesterday to the councillor for Ward 15, Eglinton-Lawrence, to tell him personally that, after learning of his problem, she contacted Facebook over the weekend to get the fake page taken down.
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