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Wildly disappointing that this massive, and blatantly illegal collection of user location data has (of course) merely resulted in a slap on the wrist for the perpetrators here.

There should be huge (multi millions) fines and probably even jail time for the execs who approved / managed this app, but as per usual our corporate overlords get off with a "Stern warning" and a promise not to do it again.

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On the face of it, no politician wants to risk tanking an org that employs a significant part of their jurisdiction. Providing even minimum wage employment to thousands is an objective public good and hard to do, even for scoundrels. Big employers are not above the law, but they sure get more leeway.

Honestly with Tim Hortons I bet the number of voters working there are quite small. They are one of the biggest users of the Temporary Foreign Worker program in Canada. Many locations are full of foreign workers. Some of these are students, some are from the program, but either way they largely aren’t voters.

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