The Australian government online medical health record system is failing due to the number of people trying to opt out. The MyHealthRecord was introduced to store patients health records online so multiple doctors can access them. Many privacy and IT security advocates have warned that this type of system can be compromised. For most people it does not provide a great benefit. A key criticism is that users can't delete data only a provider can mark data as being hidden, and data is never actually deleted. With the Australian government throwing millions at this system to try to make it relevant this opt out may put a nail in its coffin. The government plans to sell data from this system to third parties, a fact which has not endeared it to the public with the recent government data breaches and census fiasco. People in Australia are voting with their feet to not be a part of it before it evens starts which says a lot about how people in Australia value their privacy.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by takyon on Friday July 20 2018, @09:46PM (3 children)
NBN?
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(Score: 2) by Kell on Saturday July 21 2018, @02:39AM
Census website disaster.
Scientists ask questions. Engineers solve problems.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 21 2018, @09:46AM
Are you talking about the new fibre network built using copper?
(Score: 3, Funny) by driverless on Monday July 23 2018, @12:34PM
Hey, that was a massive success, an outstanding case of Aussie innovation. I mean which other country has ever built a national fibre network out of copper? Look at those namby pamby Scandinavian countries with their 100Mbit-1Gbit links run over plain old fibre, what a bunch of lutfisk-eating wooses! Only the Aussie government can do their fibre network using copper, so suck on that, you Scandinavish wimps!