My Health Record: Deleting personal information from databases is harder than it sounds
- Written by Robert Merkel, Lecturer in Software Engineering, Monash University
Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt has announced that the My Health Record system will be modified to allow the permanent deletion of records.Shutterstock
Since the period for opting out of My Health Record began on July 16, experts in health, privacy and IT have raised concerns about the security and privacy protections of the system, and the...
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