Tim Hortons App Collected Vast Amounts of Sensitive Data: Privacy Watchdogs

Tim Hortons App Collected Vast Amounts of Sensitive Data: Privacy Watchdogs
A Tim Hortons employee hands out coffee from a drive-thru window to a customer in Mississauga, Ont., on March 17, 2020. Nathan Denette/The Canadian Press
The Canadian Press
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The Tim Hortons mobile ordering app violated the law by collecting vast amounts of location information from customers, an investigation by federal and provincial privacy watchdogs has found.

In a report released Wednesday, privacy commissioners said people who downloaded the Tim Hortons app had their movements tracked and recorded every few minutes, even when the app was not open on their phones.