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I may be in the minority here but IMO the only really legitimate purpose a "Tim Horton's app" would have for accessing location data would be to push offers to

I may be in the minority here but IMO the only really legitimate purpose a "Tim Horton's app" would have for accessing location data would be to push offers to you when you're near one of their stores, and that should be opt-in not a default. Also, there's no legitimate reason for them to actually be storing the data - it's an app that you use to purchase coffee from retail locations, it doesn't need to track me 24/7 and store the info in a database. The number of apps that ask me for permission to access my Location, Contacts, Phone, Microphone, Camera, etc. is appalling. I feel like we need to revisit the whole idea of telemetry in mobile apps, like start over from scratch.

MiddleEndian 4y ago
>I feel like we need to revisit the whole idea of telemetry in mobile apps, like start over from scratch. Also the operating systems. You get a new Android phone, Google Maps randomly comes up and tells you "Hey you're at this location, want to do this check-in bullshit?" even though it wasn't previously open. And yet, the app list button only shows a few things that have viewable windows, no easy way to see every background task that's running adn presumably spying on you. It's designed like this deliberately.
- octobus2021 4y ago
  There're ways to get rid of all of it already. Get a dumbphone/featurephone, install open source OS, or even get a phone with one installed. Yes, they're more expensive and way less polished. Android is way more developed, has a large number of apps, and it's free (at least Android OS itself). Why do you think that is? Who do you think is paying for all that?