Early Edition with Kate Hawkesby

This Government has made fast-track a buzzword. After yet another massive hack of private information on Sunday, it needs to put that buzzword into action and sharpen up our privacy laws. Like, yesterday.  Especially if we're talking about your health information getting stolen and potentially posted online by hackers for a ransom.  The hackers it seems, are pretty much a mystery and never get caught. That ship seems to have sailed, and we can, at least for now, put that in the too hard basket.  But the folks we can fine, which we currently don't, are the businesses asking for our information and not doing enough to protect it in the first place.  If there was ever a need for better regulation and harsher penalties, it's with cases like this - what should be your private data.  In New Zealand, Consumer says there is no express penalty or fine for a breach.  The Privacy Commissioner has the power to issue a fine of $10k. Yes, just $10k. And that's only if a company doesn't report