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Ryan Bridge: I don't sleep anymore, I just fill out forms · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Have you ever tried to buy a pair of shoes
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  Speaker 1: online recently? Maybe a T shirt? Maybe try and book
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  Speaker 1: a haircut online. You'd have been asked a billion and
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  Speaker 1: one questions, what time, what day do you want your haircut?
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  Speaker 1: That stuff's fine. Then they want your name, your address,
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  Speaker 1: your birth date, your postal address, How did you hear
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  Speaker 1: about us? What shampoo do you use? I didn't ask
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  Speaker 1: for all of that. At this point, I'd rather pull
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  Speaker 1: my hair out in clumps than actually go through all
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  Speaker 1: of these stupid, irrelevant questions and actually get my haircut
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  Speaker 1: with you. I've been trying to get paid from newstalk
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  Speaker 1: Z'DB this week. I probably shouldn't talk about this, but
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  Speaker 1: I've been trying to get paid. You see, because it's
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  Speaker 1: important to get paid. You need to pay for things
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  Speaker 1: like haircuts. And I realized this is very dangerous ground
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  Speaker 1: to be treading on. I've only been here a week
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  Speaker 1: and the people here are wonderful, great, excellent people. I
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  Speaker 1: want to make that point, but some of the processes,
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  Speaker 1: oh my goodness, just absurd. You'd think they just want
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  Speaker 1: my bank account, my ID number, whatever, pay me. No,
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  Speaker 1: every personal detail under the sun, they want it. You name, it.
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  Speaker 1: They want it, my sex, probably who I'm having sex with,
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  Speaker 1: my home address, my ethnicity. This is the one that
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  Speaker 1: I couldn't understand. This sent me into a tailspin. Why
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  Speaker 1: do you need the color of my skin to pay me?
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  Speaker 1: And this is not just my employer's situation, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: this is a third party who runs this, so that
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  Speaker 1: there must be plenty of people and companies out there
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  Speaker 1: that are doing this. It's not a legal requirement. And
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  Speaker 1: the stupid drop down box wasn't working for me, so
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't even able to pick my ethnicity. I tried
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  Speaker 1: to pick European and it would have let me. I
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  Speaker 1: tried all of them. I tried to say it was
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  Speaker 1: Chinese or Tino, even Indian, and I'm like, are you
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  Speaker 1: going to pay me in rupees? What is the significance
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  Speaker 1: of my ethnicity to whether I'm getting paid or not? Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I calmed myself down and sorted that issue out. But
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  Speaker 1: the reason I ask is and the reason I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about this is because a lot of the information that
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  Speaker 1: we give these companies goes into some big database at
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  Speaker 1: the back end of their computer system, and oftentimes these
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  Speaker 1: computer systems get hacked. Thousands of companies have thousands of
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  Speaker 1: bits of data about us, and they not only sell
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  Speaker 1: it between one another, but as I said, can often
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  Speaker 1: get hacked. So I've come up with an idea, a
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  Speaker 1: bill I'm hoping to get through Parliament. It's called the
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  Speaker 1: Excessive Digital Information Collection Protection Bill. And for every question
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  Speaker 1: they ask us, we get five bucks. And I want
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  Speaker 1: to be able to reject all cookies. You know that
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  Speaker 1: function they have over in Europe that we don't have here.
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  Speaker 1: I want to be able to have that function here too.
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  Speaker 1: And I want the ability to sue if my data
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  Speaker 1: is stolen. And I'm talking billions of dollars. Just go away,
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  Speaker 1: Just stop asking all these questions. It's incessant, it's unnecessary,
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  Speaker 1: and it puts all of us more at risk when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to scammers. It's twenty nine minutes after five.
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  Speaker 1: we're going to talk about retail crime just before seven o'clock.
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