Yesterday I had an odd encounter with a door knocker. He was looking for home owners to do “financial surveys” which would take around 12 minutes for a $100 coles gift card that you could ring up and activate later on. The guy said he was from Such-and-Such Financial (I’ve since forgetten the name) and was looking for participants for surveys. When I asked him what they were used for, he said that it was because “we used to get this information from the ABS but lately their information had become unreliable so we gather it ourselves.” A quick glance at the survey and it was asking for quite detailed financial data. Income, house value, loan amounts, amounts left owing on loans etc, etc. Most concerning at the top of the survey it asked for name, address and contact details. No mention anywhere of any privacy statement or what they
