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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @09:57PM (2 children)
[Dumb American voice]What, do Aussies have something to hiiiiiide? YOUCANTBETOOSAFETHINKOFTHECHILDRENDOWNLOADTHEFREEIPHONENEWSAPPPOLLYWANNACRACKER! Get Trump to build a wall between us and Austria, wherever that is!!!"[/Dumb American voice]
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 20 2018, @10:02PM
FTFY
(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Sunday July 22 2018, @12:55AM
You sound just like Malcolm. You think we're dumb. Because Obama was very weak. And you took advantage of that, you made a deal that's very one-sided. Very dumb for America -- the worst deal ever. To take your refugees. While you take ours. We don'tn want refugees, we don't have room for them. And we're moving very strongly to keep them out.