@daicosisgod; the rot started in earnest when the Abbott Government required telcos to provide it with personal metadata - that grew like a malignant cancer into what we now see and some people suffer.
To quote Russian hackers - Australian authorities are incredibly stupid and deserve to be hacked!
Our federal government must immediately BAN all businesses and government departments from holding onto customers' information beyond the transaction they've just made - with criminal prosecutions to apply where that's not fully implemented and full compensation automatically paid by the hosts whenever customers' information is surrendered to hackers.
