Looks like our privacy is only worth a coffee and a donut

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A snippet from an email I got today:

Dear Tim Hortons guest,​


You are receiving this email in connection with a court approved settlement of a national class action lawsuit involving the Tim Hortons App. If you currently have an Active Tims Rewards Account, the two Credits (“Offers”) - one Free Hot Beverage and one Free Baked Good – will be issued to this account, and available for you to activate and use, as of February 1, 2023.
 
Yup. Our privacy is worth nothing here in Canada.

I mean we all use our phones, and allow all sorts of apps to do whatever the hell they want (why does my fitness app need access to my calls, photo, and microphone?), but this is a slap in the face and goes to show how little protection there are for consumers.

Tim's messed up large, and this is nothing more than a slap on the wrist 'look we're doing something' type of thing.
 
You gotta appreciate that is the funniest way possible to settle the suit
 
mimico_polak said:
Yup. Our privacy is worth nothing here in Canada.

I mean we all use our phones, and allow all sorts of apps to do whatever the hell they want (why does my fitness app need access to my calls, photo, and microphone?), but this is a slap in the face and goes to show how little protection there are for consumers.

Tim's messed up large, and this is nothing more than a slap on the wrist 'look we're doing something' type of thing.
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It's not even a slap. It gets you back in the restaurant. They should provide a gift card to a competitor so it really hurts :D
 
Our weak in the knee's gov hard at work protecting themselves more then the people they serve.

Canadian laws and specifically privacy laws probably have to be updated radically to keep pace with updated tech.

Instead we get stuff like this:
www.gtamotorcycle.com

Question Period

Wow what entertainment this stuff is. Makes me laugh to see none of them actually answer a question. Although they call it question period
www.gtamotorcycle.com www.gtamotorcycle.com
Where our gov spends time with non answers.
 
sburns said:
Good point Tim's hasn't baked a donunt in years, they are frozen and microwaved to room temperature.
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A couple of stores in the Hamilton / Burlington area had unique items like oat cakes. They were a bit like an oatmeal cookie but not as sweet. Some stores were more generous with muffin sizes. Now the size is exaggerated by an over sized piece of paper.

Soon it'll be Soylent Green.
 
GreyGhost said:
They should provide a gift card to a competitor so it really hurts
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They should have been handed a F'n enormous fine by the government without any need for a class action lawsuit.

Until other companies think these laws actually have any teeth, this will be looked at as a cost of doing business for many.

Getting a ****** coffee and a ****** donut is an insult.

But whatever, I change all the privacy settings on my iPhone to restrict location data for apps that don't need my location, and on ones that demand it for some sort of quasi-legit reason I set the permissions so that it only has non-detailed location data (so the app only gets coarse location to within a 1km radius or something like that) , and also gets location data cut off as soon as I close the app, never unrestricted "all the time" access. I suggest everyone learn how to leverage their phones privacy tools and do the same.
 
Out of sheer desperation I’m at a Tims right now as our car gets Rust Checked.

I managed to make a cappuccino in the app worth almost $7 to maximize my “F you” value on the freebie redemption.

It’s been 20 minutes now and they can’t figure out how to make it. But they have so far gave me 2 donuts while I’m waiting instead of the one freebie I was supposed to get.
 
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raginduck said:
The fact you received that email notice from Tim Hortons... means you gave them your email address!
Anyone caught up in this... has no one to blame but themselves.
What did you think they wanted it for?
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It's not about email addresses. It's about the app tracking your location even when closed, which was definitely not disclosed as part of their privacy agreement:

"The case stems from a Financial Post story in 2020 by journalist James McLeod, who found the Tim Hortons app had been tracking his movements so closely that it knew where he lived, where he worked, where he vacationed. An analysis of months’ worth of data obtained through federal privacy law suggested the app was tracking him even when it was closed."

"Within the Tim Hortons app, an FAQ covering privacy issues told customers that it tracks location “only when you have the app open,” but that did not appear to be entirely true based on the data RBI provided to me."
 
This is when those rotary dial land lines in my house start to make sense. And yeah tim's coffee sucks if you drink it black. McD's has good coffee too bad their "service" sucks so badly now. (I'm old enough to remember when you could give them money and they would hand you food instead of a number)
 
Tim’s has been a greasy crap hole of a company since it was sold off to the Brazilians . When someone says meet me at Tim’s , yes to meet , then we are going somewhere else if a coffee is involved. Wish I had owned one 30 yrs ago , but I would not drink the product on purpose .


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crankcall said:
Tim’s has been a greasy crap hole of a company since it was sold off to the Brazilians . When someone says meet me at Tim’s , yes to meet , then we are going somewhere else if a coffee is involved. Wish I had owned one 30 yrs ago , but I would not drink the product on purpose .


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I knew a guy that bought an early franchise and when it grew into a mega location he couldn't sell it for what it was worth. Fine print gave buy back to TH at next to nothing.
 
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