On Thu, 2018-07-19 at 10:04 +1000, Jim Birch wrote: > [some stuff] The whole system is founded on a huge betrayal - saying it would be opt-in, then flipping it to opt-out.
The many so-called controls turn out on closer inspection to be useless. Permissions must be applied on a document-by-document basis, access logging is by institution, not down to the individual and so on. If this was about better medicine or evidence-based policy, the government would have designed a system that provided those. But it hasn't. Remember the health care card that absolutely definitely was not supposed to be used as an ID card? Yet strangely the government insisted that it should have a photo and name and address details printed on it - when these were absolutely unnecessary to the purported function of the card. Similarly the MyHR system has lots of characteristics that are not necessary to its purported function. And it lacks many characteristics that clearly ARE necessary to its purported function. Which leads me to the obvious conclusion that its purported functions are not in fact its intended functions. Add to that the fact that this fast trove of highly sensitive data is a couple of votes away from being abused by any future government, and you have a system that I would not touch with a barge pole. Regards, K. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karl Auer ([email protected]) http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer http://twitter.com/kauer389 GPG fingerprint: A0CD 28F0 10BE FC21 C57C 67C1 19A6 83A4 9B0B 1D75 Old fingerprint: A52E F6B9 708B 51C4 85E6 1634 0571 ADF9 3C1C 6A3A _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
