Tim Hortons app under investigation over privacy concerns

Technology expert Ritesh Kotak discusses some of the privacy concerns around the Tim Hortons app and if users have given consent.

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16 comments

  1. Why do you need an app to tell you where the nearest Tim Horton’s? There is one on every corner. Welcome to Sleezyville, where the citizens are all asleep….

    1. I. can’t figure out who is storing where I go on my Iphone! Going to start leaving the phone at home. Creepy! Like stalkers.

    2. @Cindy Mc7 The contact tracing can be more than stalking. Now in Israel, after you got contact with a virus career, the app will message and ask you to go self quarantine by law.

    3. the news piece is about the abuse of what you mentioned…do you not understand this. If it was for using it there would be no news piece.

  2. So… download the Tim Horton’s app; give it location permission, then *never* go to Tim Horton’s, bypass them and go to Starbucks – you don’t even have to buy anything at Starbucks, simply stopping long enough for the app to *believe* you visited their competition is enough to send a flurry of panic through Tim’s execs… ๐Ÿคจ

  3. I thought we all understood that’s what these apps do. That’s why i laughed when i saw all the ads posted for their apps. I guess i should have been crying.

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