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Speaker 1: The cockup that the Inland Revenue Department as engineered gives us, say,

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Speaker 1: has given us a good insight into how the public service,

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Speaker 1: apart from anything else, is run. They hand our information,

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Speaker 1: your information, my information over to Google and Facebook, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: They do this so they can better tailor their advertising.

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Speaker 1: Even at this point, this early point, surely there's a

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Speaker 1: couple of large red flags here. Firstly, I would argue

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Speaker 1: there's a patriotic duty for all government funded agencies to

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Speaker 1: at least pause and ask themselves, given the relationship with

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Speaker 1: social media and the local media and ripping off of

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Speaker 1: locally created content and making money from it, whether the

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Speaker 1: government should be throwing more money at them, while at

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Speaker 1: the same time allegedly trying to cut some sort of

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Speaker 1: revenue deal where the international players come to the table

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Speaker 1: and actually pay for the content they're ripping off. Secondly,

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Speaker 1: and more importantly, the info the IID has has been

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Speaker 1: gained by compulsion. We have no choice but to hand

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Speaker 1: over our details to them. At what point did they

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Speaker 1: gain the right to on sell them to another party

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Speaker 1: far less an international one with as the record shows,

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Speaker 1: and multiple jurisdictions, not a lot of interest in behaving

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Speaker 1: in a way that doesn't attract an outsized amount of

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Speaker 1: attention to the ways of doing business. I mean, from

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Speaker 1: America to Europe to Britain. How many times have these

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Speaker 1: players been called before committees and tribunals and inquiries to

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Speaker 1: answer questions about their practices, records, business approach, revenue generation

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Speaker 1: in general, omnipresence in people's lives. Ird will tell you

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Speaker 1: our details are safe, the names, the ages, the serial

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Speaker 1: numbers are confidential. They've been hashed. I think that's the term.

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Speaker 1: That's where they take letters and all that sort of

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Speaker 1: thing and turn them into numbers and keys. But have

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Speaker 1: they are they really now? People, especially those on social media,

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Speaker 1: they give them a lot of themselves the way of

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Speaker 1: course on a regular basis off and not even realizing it,

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Speaker 1: but the idea different. We had no choice, we weren't asked,

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Speaker 1: We didn't give permission. That needs to be addressed. For

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