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Update! Tim Horton's is not spying on you after all!

Reversing itself, the Defence Department says an espionage report it produced that warned about Canadian coins with tiny radio frequency transmitters was not true.

The Defence Security Service said it never could substantiate its own published claims about the mysterious coins. It has begun an internal review to determine how the false information was included in a 29-page report about espionage concerns.

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The now-disavowed report never suggested who might be tracking American defence contractors or why. It never described how the Pentagon discovered the purported ruse, how the transmitters worked or even which Canadian currency allegedly contained them.

Well, being that I was skeptical about this originally, I feel all smug now.