[LINK] The ABC weighs in on My Health Record
David Boxall
linkdb at boxall.name
Thu Aug 2 21:15:05 AEST 2018
Cue whining from the Coalition about ABC bias.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-02/my-health-record-still-not-safe/10063026
> My Health Record still isn't safe enough to proceed. It needs more
> than a band-aid fix
...
> Medical records are far more valuable than credit card details as a
> means of identity theft, due to the massive amount of personal
> information they contain about you, your family and your life history.
> They are a jackpot for hackers, fetching a high price on the dark web.
...
> Privacy to pry, however, is assured for the 900,000 people who will
> have access to your My Health Record. Their names won't be logged and
> audited when accessing your record, only their institution's name
If they can't even trace access down to the individual user level,
should the system even be operating?
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