Ryan Bridge: There should be instant fines for loss of data

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Jul 2, 2025 · 2m · transcript

Yesterday was a bad day for some of my pet peeves.

I couldn't find a carpark in town, I had to visit a supermarket, and Qantas suffered a data hack.

Nothing drives me more crazy than a business —big or small, although in this case very big— asking too many personal questions and getting too many personal details about their customers.

Unnecessarily so.

Now. There's a good argument for why Qantas needs your details - if you're flying then they require your passport number, your date of birth, your addresses in case things go wrong, etc.

I get that. But if they are collecting such sensitive…