Ryan Bridge: We need better protection of our privacy

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · May 18, 2025 · 3m · transcript

Here's a question for your Monday morning.

If somebody came up to you on the street and asked for DOB, next of kin, phone number, personal address, your interests, sports and hobbies.... what would you say?

Bugger off. Why do you want all that? What will you do with it? Do you need it?

and yet, when some random business asks you this stuff while you're buying shampoo or a computer mouse on the internet, we happily give it away, hand it over, pay for our loot (using a credit card number and password, then promptly think nothing more of it.

The reason we do this is because we're asked to do it…