Mr. Wetston has considered stepping down for months and recently advised staff he would leave midmonth, according to those people. A spokeswoman for the regulator declined to comment on Mr. Wetston’s behalf.
Mr. Wetston has been chairman of the regulator since 2010, a term during which he won credit for strengthening the OSC’s often
Facebook may not prevent its users from using fake names, a German privacy watchdog said on Tuesday, in the latest privacy setback for the U.S. company in Europe.
The Hamburg data protection authority, which is responsible for policing Facebook in Germany, said the social network firm could not unilaterally change users’ chosen usernames to their real names, nor could it ask them for official ID.
The German order comes after the Belgian privacy watchdog took Facebook to court in June over the way it tracks the activities of its users. The two authorities are working with their Spanish, Dutch and French counterparts to investigate Facebook’s new privacy policy.
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