(Reuters) – Canadian coffee chain Tim Hortons’ mobile app regularly tracked and recorded locations of its users even when their app was not open, violating the country‘s privacy laws, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) said on Wednesday.
A joint investigation by federal and provincial authorities also found that Tim Hortons lacked a robust privacy management program for the app, which could have helped the company to identify and address many of the privacy issues, the OPC said in a statement.
(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Ottawa)
