Reminder to all of my followers in Australia! If you don’t want your entire medical record stored insecurely and readily available to every medical professional and cop WITHOUT ANY JUSTIFICATION OR NOTIFICATION or just don’t like the idea of being easily put on a list of people seeking medical care related to being LGBT, disabled, or mentally ill then you need to opt out of My Health Record before 15/10/2018 or you never get the option again.
from the australian privacy foundation’s website
As an IT professional, I highly recommend every Australian opt out of My Health Record. The government does not and is not currently capable of ensuring that anything stored in My Health Record stays private. It is, in fact, not guaranteeing that the information it will collect will remain private and has refused to even promise that it won’t let people like the health insurance industry legally get access to that information in the future.
The government can do this better – but it won’t. And as somebody who has worked in government, who has seen what it is capable of, I can only ascribe their refusal to put better privacy protections in place as intentional and not in the best interests of the population.
Opt out of My Health Record. You have till 15 October 2018. Do it sooner rather than later because they’re currently importing new records into the system.
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