Restaurant patrons who've grown accustomed during the pandemic to whipping out their phones to access menus using QR codes should understand the implications for their personal data, say privacy and cyber-security experts. It's not the QR code itself that collects customer data, said Dustin Moores, a privacy lawyer with nNovation LLP in Ottawa. "What the QR code does is it sort of acts as a web link to a web page. She said some restaurants are using QR codes to gather contact tracing information as well as for menus. The same principles that you'd apply to avoiding phishing and other online scams generally also apply to using QR codes, she said.

Source: CBC News September 26, 2021 08:03 UTC