Yeah Canada isn't the US, we have remedies available to us other than sending people to jail.
Can you elaborate? Is there Canadian privacy law being violated here that doesn't stipulate any penalty other than exposing Tim Hortons to private lawsuits? Forgive the directness of my question, your comment reads like you'd know.
...to be perfectly honest, "launch a civil suit and get pennies!" sounds much more American than throwing people in jail for privacy violations. The data is already out there.
>>They also have the power to refer their determinations to other branches of government / Attorneys General etc for further enforcement of the law should their concerns not be addressed [0]
from which I can infer that this ""voluntary" "compliance"" thing they've got going on is the extent of the shit they're willing to give. My layman's reading of PIPEDA [1] suggests that court orders are eventually possible, but this act of obvious malfeasance (or, if that encroaches on a legal term, try 'fuckery') deserves a... promise to do better?
Seems like the message is "if you get caught, we'll politely ask you to stop". Not the kind of response I'd like for the granularity of this kind of tracking. Sets a bad standard.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31588094
[1] https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/P-8.6/index.html
Like, in America, we might slap the company on the wrist, fine them something like the equivalent of $1 for a normal person. And then business continues as usual.
There's not even an ineffectual fine, here.
The US is at least as bad, absolutely and even relative to the White population, with Native Americans, though it gets less attention because Native Americans get less attention in US politics than First Nations do in Canada, and because it's further masked by the attention to both the general runaway incarceration in the US and the racial impact on Blacks of unequal incarceration.
Though I'd still heavily dispute your claim. Native Americans in the US have much stronger treaty rights, much more autonomy and while they still face tons of discrimination, IME its very hard to beat Canada in that regard. In any case, between the Highway of tears and the fact that some reservations don't even have access to water in the north... comparing ourselves with other countries just comes off as pointless deflection.