In Brief: Tim Hortons gives tone deaf response to violating Canada’s privacy laws
Not a good press moment for the fast-food company which has offered its users a free coffee and donut to make up for their data being collected without consent.
Not a good press moment for the fast-food company which has offered its users a free coffee and donut to make up for their data being collected without consent.
The Colombian government, which provides journalists and other high-risk individuals bulletproof cars to ensure their safety while in the country, has been found to have installed GPS trackers on those same vehicles, so location can be reported on. Even more alarmingly, the system can also disable the cars’ engines.
Unfazed by terrestrial or historic boundaries, Amazon may be positioning to break with the 2,500+ year tradition of keeping patient data private because there may be good money to be made in doing so.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that could potentially ban TikTok in the U.S. if its Chinese owner, ByteDance, does not sell its holdings within a year. The bill now goes to the President Biden, who has said he will sign it. Court challenges are likely to follow.