The Privacy Foundation Comments On The myHR Opt-Out Period Implementation.

17 May 2018 —Media Release—Government’s “My Health Record”: No Consent Required? Opt-Out withdrawal of consent deadline is 15 October 2018 Has Canberra learned the wrong lesson from Cambridge Analytica: abusing ‘informed consent’ gives you a plausible excuse? Exploiting ignorance, inaction and misplaced trust gets you the Big Data? Our advice on My Health Record, like that of Dr Katherine Kemp, a specialist in data privacy [1], is to Opt-Out while you still can: we now know that your once-off chance to protect your medical confidentiality begins on 16 June and expires on 15 October 2018. Just say “No” to this Clayton’s ‘consent’, this attack on the clinical relationship of trust. Tell the government: “Come back when you can ask nicely!” The Health Minister, Greg Hunt’s recent announcement [2] of the closing date for your once-off chance to "Opt-Out" of the governm ent's My Health Record is remarkable not for what it says, but what it doesn’t say. There is no mention... This is the initial part of the post - read more by clicking on the title of the article. David.
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