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Ryan Bridge: Businesses should be scared to take our data · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: This government has made fast track a bit of a buzzword,
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  Speaker 1: and after get another massive hack of private information on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: it needs to put that buzzword into action sharpen up
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  Speaker 1: our privacy laws like yesterday, especially if we're talking about
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  Speaker 1: your health information getting stolen and then potentially posted online
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  Speaker 1: by hackers for a ransom. The hackers, it seems to me,
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  Speaker 1: are pretty much a mystery and never going to be caught.
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  Speaker 1: That ship has sailed and we can, at least for
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  Speaker 1: now put that in the too hard basket. But the
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  Speaker 1: folks we can find, which we currently don't, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: are the businesses asking for our information and not doing
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  Speaker 1: enough to protect it in the first place. If ever
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  Speaker 1: there was a need for better regulation and harsher penalties,
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  Speaker 1: it's with cases like this what should be your private data?
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  Speaker 1: In New Zealand Consumer says there is no express penalty
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  Speaker 1: or fine for a breach. No fine commissioner has the
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  Speaker 1: powder to issue a fine of wait for it, ten grand, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand dollars, and that's only if a company doesn't
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  Speaker 1: report a breach or tries to hide it. The ass
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  Speaker 1: is they'll whack you with a fine of up to
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  Speaker 1: fifty million Australian dollars. That makes ours look like a
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  Speaker 1: bit of a slap with a wet bus ticket, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Companies should be scared to ask for your private information
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  Speaker 1: because the risk of it being nicked is evidently quite high,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it. This is not a funny thing, it's outrageous.
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  Speaker 1: In two months, we've had the largest ever hack in
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  Speaker 1: our history through manage my health, and now there's many
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  Speaker 1: map one last week, I went shopping that books myself
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  Speaker 1: some new clothes because I've basically worn through them. So
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  Speaker 1: went out to buy just a couple of T shirts
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  Speaker 1: and shorts, and I was asked for my name and
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  Speaker 1: email address and my postal address, not that I was
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  Speaker 1: sending the clothes to myself. I walked out the shop
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  Speaker 1: with them in a bag. Why, because they want you
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  Speaker 1: on a mailing list. I didn't have to provide this data,
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  Speaker 1: but if I did, I would get ten percent off
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  Speaker 1: the clothes. I paid the full price, but I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: leave with a receipt unless I hand it over my email.
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  Speaker 1: Now that annoys me and they should be scared to
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  Speaker 1: ask for it. Businesses want our information because they can
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  Speaker 1: sell us more stuff. Or share it with a third party, whatever,
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  Speaker 1: But it should be either illegal to ask for it.
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  Speaker 1: It should actually be illegal to ask for it unless
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  Speaker 1: the law requires it, and if the data they do
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  Speaker 1: have get stolen, that should be their problem under the law.
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  Speaker 1: The fines ought to reflect how serious the breach is.
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  Speaker 1: With health well, that ought to be millions. Surely they
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  Speaker 1: should be scared, like with health and safety laws, to
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  Speaker 1: even ask for it. It's not like this problem has
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  Speaker 1: suddenly sailed into port. That's why the legislation should be
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  Speaker 1: fast tracked. It should be bipartisan, and it should be
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  Speaker 1: tough as nails. Otherwise we can all look forward to
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  Speaker 1: another data breach coming to a town near you soon.
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