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Speaker 1: Here's a question for your Monday morning. If somebody came

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Speaker 1: up to you on the street and said, can I

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Speaker 1: have your date of birth, your next of can your

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Speaker 1: phone number, your personal address? I want all of your interests,

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Speaker 1: your sports, your hobbies, what color yourundies are? What would

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Speaker 1: you say? You would tell that person to promptly bugger off,

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Speaker 1: wouldn't you. And yet, for some random reason, when a

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Speaker 1: random business asks you this stuff while you're buying a

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Speaker 1: shampoo or a computer mouse on the internet, we happily

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Speaker 1: give it away. We hand it over, we pay for

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Speaker 1: our loot using probably a credit card with a password,

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Speaker 1: and then we think nothing more of it and go

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Speaker 1: about our day. And the reason we do this is

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Speaker 1: because we're asked to do it, and we often don't

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Speaker 1: have much choice, you know, when you don't answer those

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Speaker 1: questions with the asterisks on them, and you can't go

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Speaker 1: to step two even if you're paying for this thing.

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Speaker 1: So the Privacy Commissioner has a new report out, and

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Speaker 1: it's basically a middle finger from us to big tech

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Speaker 1: on data. Two thirds two thirds of us say protecting

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Speaker 1: our personal information is now a major concern in our lives,

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Speaker 1: is a major concern presumably up there with death and

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Speaker 1: a mortgage. Eighty percent say they want more control over it,

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Speaker 1: and I agree with them. Honestly, Why does my hairdresser

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Speaker 1: need to know my date of birth when I'm booking

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Speaker 1: an appointment? Does it tell them how thin my hair

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Speaker 1: might be at a certain age? Do they need my

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Speaker 1: address to ship the hair back to me after they've

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Speaker 1: cut it and swept it off the floor. Do they

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Speaker 1: need my surname because it might denote the frailty in

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Speaker 1: my follicles passed down through generations. No, it's because they

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Speaker 1: can ask for it, so they do. Presumably they're making

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Speaker 1: money off it somehow, I don't know. Honestly, my online

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Speaker 1: supermarket and electricity provider know more intimate details about me

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Speaker 1: than some of my exes. We regularly reveal more personal

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Speaker 1: details to countdown than we would on a first date.

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Speaker 1: Companies here can basically ask you anything you have to answer.

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Speaker 1: They must take reasonable steps to keep this a secret.

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Speaker 1: But how long until the hack has come and then

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Speaker 1: it's all out there and it's all out the window

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Speaker 1: and it's all on the internet, right everyone knows that happens.

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Speaker 1: The EU has quite strict rules businesses must give you

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Speaker 1: the option of rejecting cookies. You notice when you go

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Speaker 1: on a website in the EU, you can decline the

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Speaker 1: cookies informed consent over there only asking for the stuff

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Speaker 1: related to what you're buying or doing, and you have

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Speaker 1: the right to go in and delete or change the

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Speaker 1: information that companies hold on you. I know we can't

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Speaker 1: do that, can we? You could avoid the internet altogether,

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Speaker 1: of course. I can hear what you're saying, but that

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Speaker 1: train has sort of left the station. So can I

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Speaker 1: suggest KICKSI can I ask a question to businesses this morning?

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Speaker 1: Can you please stop asking us so many damned, irrelevant

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Speaker 1: and annoying questions? For more from Early Edition with Ryan Bridge,

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