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A while back, we read about how Tim Hortons' app tracked users' movements throughout the day, whether the app was open or not. The tracker noted locations visited, including homes, workplaces, and competing coffee chains.
Now, after an investigation by Canada's privacy commissioner, to resolve a class action lawsuit, Tim Hortons have suggested a settlement:
Tim Hortons says it has reached a proposed settlement in multiple class-action lawsuits alleging the restaurant's mobile app violated customer privacy which would see the restaurant offer a free coffee and doughnut to affected users.
The company says the settlement, negotiated with the legal teams involved in the lawsuits, still requires court approval.
The coffee and doughnut chain says the deal would see eligible app users receive a free hot beverage and baked good.
Tim Hortons says in court documents it would also permanently delete any geolocation information it may have collected between April 1, 2019 and Sept. 30, 2020, and direct third-party service providers to do the same.
One free drink and a donut: We value your privacy (at a couple of bucks)?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday August 03 2022, @01:30AM
There's a number of similar shops operating in at least the US mid-Atlantic that work on the principle of made-to-order donuts. You mark your requirements for glazes, coatings, and toppings, and they make the donut on the spot. They use an automatic machine that puts out a cake donut and moves it along a hot oil chute, flips it at one point, then comes out the other end where someone takes it while it is still hot and dips and/or dregs it through the requested toppings. You get them still pretty warm and they are pretty tasty. Two chains that I can think of off the top of my head are Duck Donuts [duckdonuts.com] (I believe they first started in Duck, NC) and The Fractured Prune [fracturedprune.com]. I know I've seen at least one other, whose name escapes me. I bet they all use the same donut machine.
As for big chains, I used to prefer Mr. Donut [mister-donut.com] to Dunkin Donuts, but they essentially were bought out and replaced by Dunkins in the early 90s. Back in the day my friends and I did a road trip up I-81 through PA and north of Montreal, hitting Mr. Donuts all the way up for coffee and donuts to keep us driving.
Nowadays, I don't care for big chain donuts. Dunkins are meh and Krispy Kremes are just sugar bombs that I find too cloying by the time I finish one. So I seek out small or local bakeries for donuts with hit-or-miss results.