What do businesses know about your data - and can they be trusted?

You’re being watched online every day. Almost every click you make, every item you purchase and every clip you watch is being recorded by businesses.

The collection and selling of this information has become a multi-billion-dollar industry that shows no signs of slowing down.

It’s a reminder that getting incredible online services for free online, most often means we’re paying for them in other ways.

So what do businesses know about us? And what can we do to stop them from mining our online habits for commercial gain?

Damien speaks to Gehan Gunasekara, an associate law professor at the University of Auckland, and BusinessDesk investigations editor Victoria Young shares what she found out when she asked The Warehouse to share the information they had on her.   

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Host: Damien Venuto
Producer: Shaun D Wilson
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