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Ryan Bridge: Here we go again with privacy breaches · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: This week we've heard about another privacy breach with a
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  Speaker 1: law firm. When you go out on the street, you know,
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  Speaker 1: go to the shopping wall, whatever, to the supermarket. You
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  Speaker 1: don't go around to random people who you don't know
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  Speaker 1: and give them all of the details about yourself. Do
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  Speaker 1: you that you would find that a weird thing to do?
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  Speaker 1: But for some reason, when a business asks us online
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  Speaker 1: who we also don't know or trust, you just cannot
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  Speaker 1: shut us up. Name and address, okay, yep, totally, phone number,
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  Speaker 1: why not signature? Fill your boots. Don't even get me
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  Speaker 1: started on the credit card and the debit card. I
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  Speaker 1: was talking to a tech expert this week on the show,
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  Speaker 1: and what he said has been playing on my mind
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  Speaker 1: a little bit for two reasons. One, we've lost faith
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  Speaker 1: I think in companies to manage our data I reckon,
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  Speaker 1: and not just companies, but the government too. Trust is
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  Speaker 1: kind of dead and it's very hard to earn that back.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing sacred anymore. We know that after the health hack
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  Speaker 1: and in Finland a psycholog just notes were hacked so
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  Speaker 1: that the patients had all their secrets out there for
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  Speaker 1: some online ransom. Number Two, the penalties for businesses leaving
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  Speaker 1: the back door open for scammers is very low. This
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  Speaker 1: is what I learned. The maximum fine apparently is ten grand.
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  Speaker 1: So if a business gets your data stolen and then
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  Speaker 1: doesn't tell you about it, the maximum fine is ten grand.
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  Speaker 1: I know, I don't think it's big enough. Privacy Commissioner
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  Speaker 1: can also get involved. They can do compensation, but that
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  Speaker 1: has to be for really serious stuff. I reckon they
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  Speaker 1: should make the find so massive, so enormous, so crippling,
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  Speaker 1: that businesses just stop asking for your information in the
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  Speaker 1: first place. Let it all be anonymous, assign people a
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  Speaker 1: random number. You don't need all their information, You don't
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  Speaker 1: need to collect all of that, So just don't you know,
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  Speaker 1: If the fines don't deter the behavior, and the behavior
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  Speaker 1: doesn't stop, trust will further erode, and nobody be handing
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  Speaker 1: over their data in the first place. The Internet's just
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  Speaker 1: one big funnel collecting all about your privacy, and it
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  Speaker 1: to all in sundry. Now. I don't mean to pick
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  Speaker 1: just on the businesses here. Of course, the scammers are
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  Speaker 1: the real jerks, but they're too hard to chase down,
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  Speaker 1: let's face it. Although I did note this morning that
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  Speaker 1: in China they have just executed eleven scammers from Myanmar,
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  Speaker 1: and of course do not condone that whatsoever against the
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  Speaker 1: death penalty, but probably sends a much stronger message than
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  Speaker 1: a measly ten k fine in New Zealand dollars. For
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