Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amounts’ of location data

Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by bushbaba on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @07:59PM (#31589682)

Company A sell data to party B. Party B resells the data to party C, D, F without informing company A. Company A & B are owned by the same conglomerate.

Your law as written would only cover company A doing the sale of data to B, but not the downstream intermediaries.

Alternatively, company A doesn't sell the raw data, and instead sells reports and anonymized data that can easily be joined with other datasets. As this is not a sale of "user data", but an aggregated, anonymous insight.

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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by jen20 on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @10:13PM (#31590501)

“You may not sell the information of any person without explicit written consent for that instance of sale from that person. Aggregation counts as information. Rights are not transferable.”

The data industry is full of scum - nothing less than scorched earth in advertisers and brokers is sufficient at this point.

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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by orangepurple on Thursday June 02, 2022 @01:02AM (#31591522)

I think global GDP would halve if this was implemented as written!

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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by labster on Thursday June 02, 2022 @01:29AM (#31591669)

And yet nothing of value would be lost.

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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by JTBooth on Thursday June 02, 2022 @02:37AM (#31592110)

This would eliminate, like, caniuse.com, wouldn't it? Information about what browser version is used by 99% of visitors to a website is an aggregate of personal information of users of a website.

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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by labster on Thursday June 02, 2022 @05:29AM (#31592992)

They can get aggregated information as a free service. They don’t have to buy it from anyone, thus not breaking this law.

Aggregation isn’t the real problem. Honestly it’s the crosstabs that are killing privacy. Remove the correlations, and no one gets hurt.

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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by jen20 on Thursday June 02, 2022 @11:34AM (#31596144)

Fine by me - call it a temporary correction while scummy business models are weeded out.

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Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou... by anamexis on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:02AM (#31592246)

The GDPR basically does this in the EU, no?

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