[LINK] MHR - letter to local paper

[Karl Auer]

For what it's worth, I just sent this to my local paper for publication
(I hope) on Wednesday 30/1/2019.

Regards, K

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Get out while you still can

The last possible day to opt-out of the My Health Record system is
Thursday this week (31/1/2019). After that, you will get a record
whether you want one or not.

If you have a My Health Record, the information in it will be available
to any Government agency that wants it, for any reason at all. That
includes the ATO, Centrelink and law enforcement. The legislation also
makes clear that your medical information can be provided to commercial
third parties.

You have almost no ability to control who sees what. You cannot control
what is recorded. With minor exceptions you cannot change or remove
what has been recorded, even if it was uploaded without your consent.

Once you have a My Health Record, you cannot delete it, only "cancel"
it. A cancelled record remains available to the Government. The
Government says it will delete your record on request, but the sad fact
is that they will probably not be able to.

This is not a party-political matter. Both sides of politics seem
perfectly happy to put your sensitive medical information on the
internet. The security is a nonsense; with hundreds of thousands of
people authorised to look at it, anyone who wants it will be able to
get it.

Get out while you still can. Search for "opt-out-my-health-record". If
you discover (as thousands have) that a My Health Record has already
been created for you without your knowledge or consent, cancel it. If
you have children, opt them out too.

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Karl Auer (kauer at biplane.com.au)
http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer
http://twitter.com/kauer389

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