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Canadian govt slams Tim Hortons for violating customers’ privacy by tracking their movements

The company's mobile app not only tracked and recorded movements 'every few minutes of every day,' even when the app was not open, but where users lived and worked and traveled.

OTTAWA (LifeSiteNews) – A Canadian Privacy Commissioner report found coffee giant Tim Hortons guilty of tracking its smartphone application users without their consent, even when the app was not in use.

In a scathing ruling released June 1, Privacy Commissioner Daniel Therrien spared no words in response to Tim Hortons’ blatant abuse of one’s digital privacy.

“Tim Hortons clearly crossed the line by amassing a huge amount of highly sensitive information about its customers,” Therrien said, according to a press release from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

“Following people’s movements every few minutes of every day was clearly an inappropriate form of surveillance. This case once again highlights the harms that can result from poorly designed technologies as well as the need for strong privacy laws to protect the rights of Canadians.”