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Premier Roger Cook: Housing Is One Of Our Biggest Challenges · Lisa & Russell

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  Speaker 1: The premiere is with us this morning, Good morning Friday.
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  Speaker 2: Thank goodness for that.
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  Speaker 1: Getting over the sort of not the not the flu,
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  Speaker 1: just a bit of that winter kind of stuff that
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  Speaker 1: catches up with you who not.
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  Speaker 2: Fun full test.
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  Speaker 3: Sympathies are out there for everyone who's under under the
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  Speaker 3: weather at the moment.
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  Speaker 4: And anyone who's mail.
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  Speaker 1: Now because impacts apparently a genetic Yes, you could have died.
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  Speaker 2: It was almost lethal.
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  Speaker 1: There is a lot going on and you just informed
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  Speaker 1: because it's because it's the last week of parliament, so
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  Speaker 1: you've got to get everything out and on and think
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  Speaker 1: that one of the things that's really stood out for me,
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  Speaker 1: because there's a little thing that does get to me,
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  Speaker 1: is trouble you.
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  Speaker 5: No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: You're introducing legislation to look at the complaints about the
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  Speaker 1: behavior and capacity of judges and magistrates, judicial judicial commissioners
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  Speaker 1: that we get very upset about. The police. They do
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  Speaker 1: their job, they get them in front of the judge
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  Speaker 1: and then everything.
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  Speaker 6: Seems to the center, seem to meet community expectations. It's
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  Speaker 6: the judges being judged here.
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  Speaker 3: Well, in which case I don't have a lot of
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  Speaker 3: joy for you in that context. So the judicial commission
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  Speaker 3: is about the conduct of judges, not the judgments they make,
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  Speaker 3: although ultimately, you know, if there's a judge that is
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  Speaker 3: conducting themselves in an unprofessional manner, not not fulfilling their
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  Speaker 3: obligations as a judge, it provides a mechanism for the
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  Speaker 3: for the community to be able to respond to that.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not an appeal.
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  Speaker 1: Mechanism, but it's still good to look at how they
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  Speaker 1: So it's about their business.
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  Speaker 3: It's the judges judge, and we think it's an important
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  Speaker 3: reform just to make sure that we continue to meet
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  Speaker 3: community expectations that our judicial system is performing at the
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  Speaker 3: level we expect it.
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  Speaker 4: They're getting judged the way we're getting judged.
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  Speaker 1: I'm no expert, but I feel like sometimes they're in
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  Speaker 1: the job for too long and they get to complaint.
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  Speaker 5: They don't see the horror the way we see the horror.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Well, I don't and that is it. And that
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  Speaker 3: is a great example of why we think it's important
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  Speaker 3: to have another layer of accountability just so people can
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  Speaker 3: have that level of confidence in our justice system.
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  Speaker 5: All right, well that's some good legislation.
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  Speaker 6: Another bit of news that's come out just recently, You
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  Speaker 6: guys who are Apparently it's been called the biggest shake
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  Speaker 6: up to the wait list for public housing in like
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  Speaker 6: seven seven decades.
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  Speaker 4: I guess the question beg, why so long?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, No, it's interesting, isn't it.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it's ultimately that the housing weight list is
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  Speaker 3: just that it's a it's an orderly cue, but it's
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  Speaker 3: just but it's getting longer, and that's well it is,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, and longer, and housing is one of our
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  Speaker 3: biggest challenges that we have.
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  Speaker 2: But of course there's people on.
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  Speaker 3: The housing list weight list that we want to get
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  Speaker 3: too soon, the people who are who are in a
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  Speaker 3: domestic violent situation, people who have got health issues. So
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  Speaker 3: what we want to be able to do is to
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  Speaker 3: interrogate that list and make sure that those people who
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  Speaker 3: are a higher priority in relation to housing get to
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  Speaker 3: get to a social and affordable home sooner than others.
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  Speaker 3: So this is, as you say, it's a big shake
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  Speaker 3: up in relation to the way we do it. For decades,
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  Speaker 3: all we've done is just put someone at the back
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  Speaker 3: of the queue and made and waited until they got
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  Speaker 3: to the front. We think that there's a better way
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  Speaker 3: you can do this, a more just way that you
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  Speaker 3: can do this to ensure that the system works better.
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  Speaker 6: And is that just due to the pressure, the fact
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  Speaker 6: that the list is blowing out, I mean it has
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  Speaker 6: blown out over recent times.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: And look, I think over the last couple of decades,
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  Speaker 3: governments of all persuasions have taken their foot off the
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  Speaker 3: pedal in terms of social housing, and that's put us
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  Speaker 3: in the situation now we we're a bit behind the apple,
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  Speaker 3: and it's another reason why we're investing I think we're
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  Speaker 3: over ten billion dollars now in social in social homes
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  Speaker 3: to continue to make sure they've got that build and
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  Speaker 3: the maintenance of older stock to ensure that we can
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  Speaker 3: continue to house we have.
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  Speaker 4: The trade is to build them well.
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  Speaker 3: And as you would have seen in the media reports today,
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  Speaker 3: we are fastest growing population in the culture and that
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  Speaker 3: is all about our focus on bringing tradees from the
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  Speaker 3: East Coast and from overseas to make sure we've got
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  Speaker 3: those construction workers that we need.
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  Speaker 2: Our economy is continuing.
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  Speaker 3: To grow, it's the fastest growing, strongest economy in the
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  Speaker 3: nation at the moment. We need those construction workers to
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  Speaker 3: continue to make sure we've got the skills and the
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  Speaker 3: workforce we need to do the housing build of course,
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  Speaker 3: but obviously there's already there's always really big industrial developments
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  Speaker 3: taking place which continue to soak up that construction workforce
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  Speaker 3: as well.
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  Speaker 1: Now what about this one, facial recognition technology.
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  Speaker 5: People get really weird about this.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I know, but hands up, I'm amongst them, but
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  Speaker 2: I kind of.
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  Speaker 1: Think that if you've got if you haven't done anything wrong,
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  Speaker 1: who cares?
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  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, because ultimately people are concerned about their privacy.
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  Speaker 5: No, but you don't care what I'm doing.
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  Speaker 1: Another, you're so boring, not that important.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not picking that.
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  Speaker 4: Look, I just got a scarf on today. That's something different.
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  Speaker 2: So so what what This is a police initiated operational trial,
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  Speaker 2: which is the first in Australia.
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  Speaker 3: It's basically utilizing technology which we've seen applied in the
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  Speaker 3: UK with remarkable success.
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  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, so essentially crime shows.
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  Speaker 3: So essentially what this is is a van that will
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  Speaker 3: sit in a particular precinct.
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  Speaker 2: There might be a lot of people there, it might
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  Speaker 2: be a particular event maybe, but it is. It'll be
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  Speaker 2: very clearly labeled. It will say so if you're walking
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  Speaker 2: through this area.
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  Speaker 3: You're on camera and it will only look and I
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  Speaker 3: had I checked this tech.
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  Speaker 2: This technology out earlier this week. It only looks.
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  Speaker 3: At people that meet the algorithms of someone who is
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  Speaker 3: there's an arrest warrant.
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  Speaker 1: Hart.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you don't have time that someone that's in the
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  Speaker 2: wrong place.
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  Speaker 3: There might be a court order that they don't go
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  Speaker 3: to that particular area. And in the UK they've had
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  Speaker 3: remarkable success picking up you know, sexual predators that are
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  Speaker 3: in precincts where they shouldn't be things of that nature.
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  Speaker 3: And we really interrogated the police to say, look, okay,
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  Speaker 3: so what happens to this data and they and they
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  Speaker 3: are absolutely you know, committed to making sure that there's
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  Speaker 3: no leakage.
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  Speaker 2: Of that data. It doesn't get out of the van,
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  Speaker 2: it's deleted at the.
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  Speaker 3: End of the session, and it is only loaded up
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  Speaker 3: to the for those people for which there is an
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  Speaker 3: outstanding either a resta warrant, or some conditions around their movements.
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  Speaker 6: It's not like one of those CIA vans in the
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  Speaker 6: movies where all of a sudden they come bursting out
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  Speaker 6: of the BACKSTV.
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  Speaker 3: That's them. And again I saw what happened. I saw
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  Speaker 3: the technology for the person operating it. Everyone else is pixelated.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, so if you're walking past these cameras. It
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  Speaker 3: will take a it will take a look at it,
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  Speaker 3: and the algorithms will say this, this is a match,
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  Speaker 3: in which case then the person will then the operator
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  Speaker 3: will down to see the person. If there's no match,
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  Speaker 3: the person, the individual remains pixelated.
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  Speaker 4: You'll be pixelated because you're boring.
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  Speaker 5: I will be That's my point.
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  Speaker 2: Long live that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I want to be pixelated.
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  Speaker 2: Let us all be in a situation where we don't
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  Speaker 2: come to the intention of the I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't want to.
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  Speaker 4: You can't pixelate it. At least have vaseline over the
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  Speaker 4: screen to trial.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to check the technology out, make sure that
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  Speaker 3: we have that oversight, make sure that the data is respected.
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  Speaker 2: From a privacy point of view. But look, if it
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  Speaker 2: helps us catch more bad people, that's a good thing, exactly.
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  Speaker 5: All right, good catch up, Thanks for coming very much.
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  Speaker 4: Good keep recovering from your cold