CBC Radio reports on the potential privacy implications of scanning QR codes for restaurant menus, such as additional cookies or more targeted advertising. nNovation privacy lawyer Dustin Moores, CIPP/C, said menus have transitioned to "a website that comes with all the sort of tracking technologies that you see in modern e-commerce today," while, according to Yuan Stevens, policy lead for technology, cyber-security and democracy at Ryerson University's Leadership Lab, the data privacy risks still are "fairly hypothetical."
QR codes at restaurants and their potential risk to privacy
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