02 February 2023 Lerners LLP To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. What do blueberry pancakes and data privacy have in common? While not many things may come to mind, their commonality is that they share the same day of celebration, namely January 28. More specifically, January … Read more
Tim Horton cafe in Manhattan.photo: Spencer Platt / Staff (Getty Images) Canadian regulators on Wednesday found that Tim Hortons—a popular fast-food chain owned by the same multinational company as Burger King—changed its mobile app in 2019 to track and collect sensitive location data on its customers. An investigation led by Canada’s privacy commissioner found that, … Read more
Canada’s largest fast-food chain violated privacy laws by tracking people who used its app hundreds of times a day – even when the app was not in use. That is the result of a joint investigation by Canadian privacy officials into Tim Hortons’ surveillance of customers through an app installed on millions of mobile phones … Read more
The tracking capabilities of the Tim Hortons app – which more than one in 10 Canadians use at least once a month – are the subject of legal probes, launched in 2020, that have raised questions about whether the company gathers too much information about its customers.Fred Lum/the Globe and Mail Plaintiffs and privacy commissioners … Read more
