Cybercriminals publish personal details of thousands of donors to Australian charities on the dark web
Cybercriminals publish personal details of thousands of donors to Australian charities on the dark web
The Cancer Council, Canteen and Fred Hollows Foundation have confirmed donor information has been published on the dark web after a telemarketer was hacked.
Maybe charities shouldn't be giving out our details to tele-marketers.
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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.
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.
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.
Those people likely aren't direct representatives of a charity. The aggressive (desperate) ones are generally salespeople hired by third parties with KPIs and quotas they need to meet in order to get paid anything other than the bare minimum. Many are underpaid and exploited by their employers and only take the job out of desperation. This industry has been investigated by Fair Work previously and is the subject of an ongoing inquiry.
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.
Read the article again maybe? Not what is happening here. Maybe a bot would would have been more accurate?
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.
It’s a pretty well known fact at the moment.
It's 100% bullshit mate.
Large charities are regularly audited by independent third parties to ensure that they're well governed, which would include adherence to the Australian Privacy Principles as defined by the Privacy Act, which preclude the sale of sensitive personal information.
Pull your head out of your ass. Perhaps you personally do not want to donate to charities and are looking for a way to justify that to yourself - which is perfectly fine, but it's not fine to try to convince others not to donate to charities. Honestly, shame on you. Pull your head out of your ass.