The much more important conclusion to come out of the whole process of trying to find out what data a particular company had on me is that Canada’s Personal Information and Protection of Electronic Documents Act is fundamentally flawed.
My investigation of the location tracking done by Tim Hortons on its customers started in October 2019, when my phone received an alert that said the company’s app had checked my location in the background — in other words, I was not using the app at the time.Article content continued As part of that email, I received two spreadsheets of data. “The data in the attached files includes both the data previously provided to you and any new information in Radar’s custody collected between November 1, 2019 through June 12, 2020,” RBI’s email said.
One of the new spreadsheets that arrived from Tim Hortons included columns labelled “floorlevel,” “altitude” and “verticalaccuracy,” but two of those columns were completely devoid of data. And the altitude column only had spotty data, with many spreadsheet lines left empty, and recorded numbers ranging from 39.79999924 up to 292.5195313, which might measure feet or metres above sea level, but it’s not clear.
Tim Hortons said some of those numbers are unique identifiers for specific locations. Some of the numbers also appeared in the older files sent to me by Tim Hortons. Ultimately, we’d still probably need to just take Radar Labs’ word, via RBI in this case, that it has nothing else on me in its servers.
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Most of Canada's laws have 'no teeth' it seems 😅
Just like Parliament’s ethic laws-No teeth either.
ICYMI: Tim Hortons is logging detailed location data of customers through its app — and many may not realize it’s happening at all.