[christocracy]

Tim Hortons in Canada is being probed for using Radar Labs in their mobile app.

"Tim Hortons' parent company, Toronto-based Restaurant Brands partners with Radar Labs, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based company , which provides location-based data analytics, and helps the Tims app to identify when users are near competing fast-food restaurants and coffee shops."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-privacy-wat...

[addicted]

This sounds like a lack of full disclosure and/or the app not placing appropriate limits.

This hardly seems like an issue with the underlying API.

[CapriciousCptl]

Heh, Burger King did that to offer $0.01 whopper coupons but I guess the difference is the app had to be in use and known to the user to recognize the location--

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/12/04/burger-king-...

[tosser8475]

BK & Timmy's are owned by the same parent company. Hmmm.