Re:Tim Hortons app violated laws in collection of ‘vast amou...
by Cd00d on Thursday June 02, 2022 @12:29PM
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That's a fair point, and I'm guessing why my previous comment is being downvoted.
I know our location provider did some things proactively - like they would not geofence hospitals, for example, but "home" is likely very visible.
That's a dataset I didn't work on as much, so maybe I'm not being sensitive enough to the "this should be illegal" argument. I guess on reflection misleading you for the collection should be illegal, though how to do that isn't obvious.
What I've worked on the most is people's credit card transaction histories, and that's quite a bit more naturally anonymous, though again, if you know enough about a person they would be discoverable.
I know our location provider did some things proactively - like they would not geofence hospitals, for example, but "home" is likely very visible.
That's a dataset I didn't work on as much, so maybe I'm not being sensitive enough to the "this should be illegal" argument. I guess on reflection misleading you for the collection should be illegal, though how to do that isn't obvious.
What I've worked on the most is people's credit card transaction histories, and that's quite a bit more naturally anonymous, though again, if you know enough about a person they would be discoverable.