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Speaker 1: Yesterday was a bad day for me for some of

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Speaker 1: my pet peeves. I had trouble getting a car park,

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Speaker 1: probably half an hour wasted there, I had to go

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Speaker 1: to the supermarket, which you know that I hate doing,

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Speaker 1: and Quantus had a data hack. Nothing drives me more

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Speaker 1: crazy than a business, big or small, although in this

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Speaker 1: case very big, asking too many personal questions of us

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Speaker 1: and getting too many personal details about their customers unnecessarily.

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Speaker 1: So now there is a good argument for why Quantas

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Speaker 1: of all companies, would need your details. You know, if

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Speaker 1: you're flying, you need a passport number, you need your

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Speaker 1: date of birth, your address in case things go wrong,

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Speaker 1: et cetera, et cetera. I get that, But if they

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Speaker 1: are collecting such sensitive information, our secrets and essentially the

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Speaker 1: secret to our identity, then can they not keep that safe? Please? No,

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Speaker 1: they can't, No, they can't. Yesterday, six million Quantus customers names,

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Speaker 1: email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates, frequent flyer numbers, you

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Speaker 1: name it. Apparently everything but the credit card data. Thank god. Now,

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Speaker 1: if you can keep your credit card data safe but

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Speaker 1: not the rest of it, then why not the added

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Speaker 1: layers of protection for everything else? The date of birth?

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Speaker 1: Please Honestly, at this point, who cares the information that

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Speaker 1: was taken is bad enough? And what will they do? Apologize,

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Speaker 1: send a letter, and then move on until it all

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Speaker 1: happens again, which it will. We should have instant and

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Speaker 1: highly aggressive fines for this type of thing happening. Once

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Speaker 1: your private data is hacked from your third party customer

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Speaker 1: service center, there is no getting it back. It can

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Speaker 1: and will be used sold on the black market to

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Speaker 1: gangs of losers wanting to rip us off. They've opened

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Speaker 1: a can of worms for us. The sooner these guys

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Speaker 1: get properly punished, and I'm not talking just about Quantus,

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Speaker 1: but multinationals and big companies in particular, for being so

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Speaker 1: cavalier with our information. This sooner it might stop getting stolen,

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Speaker 1: and then they might also start asking themselves whether they

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Speaker 1: really need our personal details and so many of them

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Speaker 1: in the first place. For more from Early Edition with

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