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Ryan Bridge: We need better protection of our privacy · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: Here's a question for your Monday morning. If somebody came
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  Speaker 2: up to you on the street and said, can I
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  Speaker 2: have your date of birth, your next of can your
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  Speaker 2: phone number, your personal address? I want all of your interests,
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  Speaker 2: your sports, your hobbies, what color your rundies are? What
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  Speaker 2: would you say? You would tell that person to promptly
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  Speaker 2: bugger off, wouldn't you. And yet, for some random reason,
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  Speaker 2: when a random business asks you this stuff while you're
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  Speaker 2: buying a shampoo or a computer mouse on the internet,
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  Speaker 2: we happily give it away, We hand it over, we
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  Speaker 2: pay for our loot using probably a credit card with
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  Speaker 2: a password, and then we think nothing more of it
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  Speaker 2: and go about our day. And the reason we do
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  Speaker 2: this is because we're asked to do it, and we
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  Speaker 2: often don't have much choice, you know, when you don't
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  Speaker 2: answer those questions with the asterisks on them, and you
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  Speaker 2: can't go to step two even if you're paying for
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  Speaker 2: this thing. So the Privacy Commissioner has a new report out,
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  Speaker 2: and it's basically a middle finger from us to big
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  Speaker 2: tech on data two thirds two thirds of us say
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  Speaker 2: projecting our personal information is now a major concern in
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  Speaker 2: our lives is a major concern, presumably up there with
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  Speaker 2: death and a mortgage. Eighty percent say they want more
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  Speaker 2: control over it, and I agree with them. Honestly, Why
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  Speaker 2: does my hairdresser need to know my date of birth
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  Speaker 2: when I'm booking an appointment? Does it tell them how
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  Speaker 2: thin my hair might be at a certain age? Do
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  Speaker 2: they need my address to ship the hair back to
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  Speaker 2: me after they've cut it and swept it off the floor.
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  Speaker 2: Do they need my surname because it might denote the
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  Speaker 2: frailty in my follicles passed down through generations. No, it's
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  Speaker 2: because they can ask for it, so they do. Presumably
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  Speaker 2: they're making money off it somehow, I don't know. Honestly,
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  Speaker 2: my online supermarket and electricity provider know more intimate details
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  Speaker 2: about me than some of my exes regularly reveal more
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  Speaker 2: personal details to countdown then we would on a first date.
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  Speaker 2: Companies here can basically ask you anything you often have
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  Speaker 2: to answer. They must take reasonable steps to keep this
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  Speaker 2: a secret. But how long until the hack has come
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  Speaker 2: and then it's all out there and it's all out
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  Speaker 2: the window, and it's all on the internet, right, everyone
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  Speaker 2: knows that happens. The EU has quite strict rules. Businesses
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  Speaker 2: must give you the option of rejecting cookies. You notice
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  Speaker 2: when you go on a website in the EU, you
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  Speaker 2: can decline the cookies informed consent over there only asking
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  Speaker 2: for the stuff related to what you're buying or doing,
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  Speaker 2: and you have the right to go in and delete
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  Speaker 2: or change the information that companies hold on you. I
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  Speaker 2: know we can't do that, can we? You could avoid
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  Speaker 2: the internet altogether, of course. I can hear what you're saying,
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  Speaker 2: but that train has sort of left the station. So
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  Speaker 2: can I suggest, Kishi? Can I ask a question to
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  Speaker 2: businesses this morning? Can you please stop asking us so
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  Speaker 2: many damned, irrelevant and annoying questions?
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