Maybe charities shouldn’t be giving out our details to tele-marketers.

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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Charities sell your data to telemarketers, unless they take loose money you should avoid at all costs.

    I’m not a bot.

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      The aggressive sales tactics of the charity representatives at those little pop-ups at the supermarket and plazas are a bit shady as well, IMO. I usually manage to avoid them but the few times I have been stopped, it’s never a pleasant/easy experience to get away. They are trained to sell this way, and I understand they need the donations, but it never leaves me with a feeling of respect for the charity they represent.

      I cant afford to make monthly donations but sometimes I would like the option to drop a cash donation in a tin, or to make a one-off merch purchase. Unfortunately neither of these things are ever an option these days, so instead we get the hard sell and are left with a bad taste in the mouth.

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        100%, $70 a month to restore sight? Homie I’m struggling to afford to eat and pay rent.

        In fact if I was even $10,000 better off a year in my job id absolutely be dishing it out to those who need it. But hell no you can’t have my data.

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      1 year ago

      Read the article again maybe? Not what is happening here. Maybe a bot would would have been more accurate?

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        I know what I’m saying, give a cent to these charities and your phone will be ringing every dinner time by Indian telemarketers. It’s a pretty well known fact at the moment.

        They take your money and sell your data.

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    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The Cancer Council, Canteen and Fred Hollows Foundation have confirmed donor information has been published on the dark web.

    "Under the Australian Privacy Principles, there is a requirement for personal information data to be destroyed or de-identified once it is no longer needed for the purpose for which it was collected.

    “We’re deeply upset that our supporters have been impacted by a data breach at Pareto Phone … we understand that this will cause major concern for kind-hearted people who donate.”

    “We understand that this may be a concerning situation for anyone who has generously donated to Cancer Council, and we unreservedly apologise for any distress caused,” a statement read.

    “We have not at this stage identified any identity documents such as tax file numbers, driver licenses and passports about any donor,” Mr Smedley said.

    There is a risk more data could be published, since there had been four months between the attack and the leak, Paul Haskell-Dowland, a professor of Cybersecurity Practice at Edith Cowan University, said.


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