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Taleya@aussie.zone 1 day agoLegally you shouldn’t. Privacy act actually says that data requested should only be of the kind " reasonably necessary for a function or activity." So no, you don’t have to give your mobile or email to buy a fucking toaster or burger.
People and companies are just woefully fucken ignorant and don’t enforce or complain. I’ve gotten into it with a few sales reps who have been shittily snarky at me not giving them my post code or mobile just because i wanted a fucking jaffle
MisterFrog@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Well, when the regulator goes “have you complained to the company yet??m” as a standard first step before you can make a report, you know nothing is getting enforced.
Optus, for example, has gotten extremely small fines.
Nothing is going to change unless the cost is higher than the profit.
We as individual consumers can do very little by ourselves.
You don’t “have to” but you often do, if you don’t want to make your life a pain in the arse.
It’s basically take it or leave it. And I just don’t think that’s good enough.