Tim Hortons in Canada is being probed for using Radar Labs in their mobile app.
"Tim Hortons' parent company, Toronto-based Restaurant Brands partners with Radar Labs, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based company , which provides location-based data analytics, and helps the Tims app to identify when users are near competing fast-food restaurants and coffee shops."
I can think of far more unstable times in history than the times we’re living in now, recent examples being WW1 & 2, nuclear threat during the Cold War.
I wire-transfer tens-of-thousands of USD / month from my bank to my wealth-management company for perfectly valid reasons (e-commerce revenue), primarily to exchange to CAD (far better rate than bank) for funding payroll and/or purchase Investments.
With each transfer, my investment company has me fill-out / sign a form declaring Source of Funds.
If the gov’t finds anything suspicious, there’s an airtight paper-trail for all these transactions.
It doesn’t make sense to pay off the mortgage when money is essentially free, where interest rate is lower than inflation.
I believe it does make sense to invest what you can now in a balanced and diversified 60/40 portfolio. The current market turmoil is mere noise in the long term.
The fundamentals are still solid. Companies continue to make profits and hire people.