National Post - Financial Post Magazine

DOUBLE TROUBLE

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Speaking of privacy woes, Cadillac Fairview has nothing on Tim Hortons, whose app was found to be quite the collector of personal data. A months-long investigat­ion by the Financial Post found that the app was logging the location coordinate­s of a reporter’s phone even when it wasn’t being used, gleaning enough informatio­n to figure out where he lived and worked. The coffee and doughnut chain has since modified its privacy informatio­n.

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