Re: [LINK] MHR - letter to local paper

2019-01-28 Thread David
On Tuesday, 29 January 2019 08:40:21 AEDT Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > On 28/01/2019 8:02 pm, Karl Auer wrote: >> The thing is, you can "delete a record from the My Health Record system" >> very simply, and without losing access to it. Just move it to any storage >> that is declared to be not

Re: [LINK] MHR - letter to local paper

2019-01-28 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
On 28/01/2019 8:02 pm, Karl Auer wrote: > The thing is, you can "delete a record from the My Health Record system" > very simply, and without losing access to it. Just move it to any storage > that is declared to be not part of the My Health record system. Which is exactly what happens when a GP/

Re: [LINK] MHR - letter to local paper

2019-01-28 Thread Karl Auer
On Mon, 2019-01-28 at 18:04 +1100, JLWhitaker wrote: > On 28/01/2019 10:45 AM, Karl Auer wrote: > > 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

Re: [LINK] MHR - letter to local paper

2019-01-27 Thread David
On Monday, 28 January 2019 15:37:55 AEDT Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote: > If the data can be got elsewhere, all bets are off. FYI, the system is > designed to get copies of data held elsewhere. That certainly seems to be the case. The Amendments are enacted separately, and the legislation would

Re: [LINK] MHR - letter to local paper

2019-01-27 Thread JLWhitaker
On 28/01/2019 10:45 AM, Karl Auer wrote: 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. I got

Re: [LINK] MHR - letter to local paper

2019-01-27 Thread Bernard Robertson-Dunn
One thing they (ADHA) never talks about is the section in the legislation that effectively cripples the whole privacy protection stuff: TL;DR If the data can be got elsewhere, all bets are off. FYI, the system is designed to get copies of data held elsewhere. This is exactly what the legislation

Re: [LINK] MHR - letter to local paper

2019-01-27 Thread David
On Monday, 28 January 2019 10:45:51 AEDT Karl Auer wrote: > 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 > y

Re: [LINK] MHR - letter to local paper

2019-01-27 Thread JLWhitaker
On 28/01/2019 10:45 AM, Karl Auer wrote: For what it's worth, I just sent this to my local paper for publication (I hope) on Wednesday 30/1/2019. They claim the laws were passed in November. It's even on their website!! ;) https://twitter.com/MyHealthRec/status/1089699572392386561 https://tw

Re: [LINK] MHR - letter to local paper

2019-01-27 Thread David
On Monday, 28 January 2019 10:45:51 AEDT Karl Auer wrote: > 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 > y

[LINK] MHR - letter to local paper

2019-01-27 Thread 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 ~ 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 whet