Michael McLaren has been stunned by the amount of personal data companies are asking potential customers for, and he calls for companies to stop asking for extremely personal details.

He points to a recent experience where while trying to purchase a gift card to a day spa, the company had asked for the details of his phone provider.

“When their [the business] databases are compromised, the information exposed is magnitudes greater than need be,” he said.

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